On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:35:25 -0400, Lew Pitcher wrote:

>
> The numbers after the first colon tell you which runlevel(s) the line
> applies to. So, if you boot into runlevel 4, only the c6 line that starts
> tty6 will be active (it's the only one that starts in runlevel 4). So,
> [<ctl>]<alt><F6> will take you to the getty login on the tty6 virtual
> terminal.
>

I always wondered why only tty6 has a login prompt, and the other tty's
don't. Thanks for the explanation.