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On 19 June 2014 09:48, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
> As per man 9 sysctl negative logic should be avoided so we should
> use enable instead ot disable here:
> kern.vt.enable with a default of 1
>
> With the user setting kern.vt.enable=0 to disable.

I prefer John's suggestion of kern.vidconsole={sc,vt}.  Making it
available as a read-only sysctl gives us a canonical way to determine
which vidconsole is in use (rather than checking for the existence of
the kern.vt.deadtimer sysctl, which some tools currently do).