The System Startup Daemon: init Pages: 1, 2 In order to
understand this file, we must realize that there are three types
of terminals on your FreeBSD system. Virtual terminals start
with "ttyv" followed by a number or letter; these are the
terminals available for users physically seated at the FreeBSD
computer. By default, the first of these virtual terminals, or
"ttyv0," represents the console. Serial or dial-up terminals
start with "ttyd" followed by a number; these terminals are
available for users accessing your FreeBSD system remotely,
using a modem. The last type of terminal is a pseudo or network
terminal; these start with "ttyp" followed by a number or a
letter and are used to access your FreeBSD computer over a
network connection. If we look at this file using we'll see that
this file has been divided into three sections, with a section
for each of the three types of terminals. Each section also has
four columns, which I've summarized in the following chart: What
it Represents The name of the termina