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Are there any reprocussions to leaving the consoles unplugged on HP L & N Class machines? We are cramped for space in the server room and we are thinking about unplugging all the console/terminals and only keeping one terminal to plug in when we need to log in directly on a box.
I did a small test - I unplugged the terminal and plugged it back in while the server was running. It recognized the terminal fine after plugging it back in. Then I unplugged the terminal and rebooted the server. It rebooted fine with no errors in the rc.log. But once I plugged the terminal back in after the reboot all of the messages from the reboot started scrolling on the screen like they had been saved in a buffer and were now being output to the screen. Obviously, my concern is that this buffer might fill up and cause problems if the consoles/terminals are unplugged for a long period of time.
 
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console

CONSOLE(4)							Linux User's Manual							CONSOLE(4)

NAME

       console - console terminal and virtual consoles

DESCRIPTION

       A  Linux  system  has  up to 63 virtual consoles (character devices with major number 4 and minor number 1 to 63), usually called /dev/ttyn
       with 1 <= n <= 63.  The current console is also addressed by /dev/console or /dev/tty0, the character device with major number 4 and  minor
       number  0.   The  device  files	/dev/*	are  usually created using the script MAKEDEV, or using mknod(1), usually with mode 0622 and owner
       root.tty.

       Before kernel version 1.1.54 the number of virtual consoles was compiled into the kernel (in tty.h: #define NR_CONSOLES	8)  and  could	be
       changed by editing and recompiling.  Since version 1.1.54 virtual consoles are created on the fly, as soon as they are needed.

       Common  ways  to  start a process on a console are: (a) tell init(8) (in inittab(5)) to start a getty(8) on the console; (b) ask open(1) to
       start a process on the console; (c) start X - it will find the first unused console, and display its output  there.   (There  is  also  the
       ancient doshell(8).)

       Common  ways  to  switch consoles are: (a) use Alt+Fn or Ctrl+Alt+Fn to switch to console n; AltGr+Fn might bring you to console n+12 [here
       Alt and AltGr refer to the left and right Alt keys, respectively]; (b) use Alt+RightArrow or Alt+LeftArrow to cycle through  the  presently
       allocated  consoles; (c) use the program chvt(1).  (The key mapping is user settable, see loadkeys(1); the above mentioned key combinations
       are according to the default settings.)

       The command deallocvt(1) (formerly disalloc) will free the memory taken by the screen buffers for consoles that no longer have any  associ-
       ated process.

PROPERTIES

       Consoles carry a lot of state. I hope to document that some other time.	The most important fact is that the consoles simulate vt100 termi-
       nals.  In particular, a console is reset to the initial state by printing the two characters ESC c.  All escape sequences can be  found	in
       console_codes(4).

FILES

       /dev/console
       /dev/tty*

SEE ALSO

       charsets(4), console_codes(4), console_ioctl(4), mknod(1), tty(4), ttys(4), getty(8), init(8), chvt(1), open(1), deallocvt(1), loadkeys(1),
       resizecons(8), consolechars(8), mapscrn(8).

Console tools							    28 Oct 1997 							CONSOLE(4)