Practices to run multiple virtual terminals

[tinypoodle]

What are the options, parameters and good practices to run multiple virtual terminals, when TC doesn't make use of running getty's?
What i do at the moment is:

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sudo openvt -c N su - tc

Thoughts?

[gerald_clark]

Edit /etc/inittab and enable additional virtual consoles.
Add /etc/inittab to /opt/.filetool.lst
Add
kill -1 1
to /opt/bootlocal.sh
If you use noautologin boot option add
kill -1 -sh
to /opt/bootlocal.sh

run "filetool.sh backup"

[tinypoodle]

what do 'kill -1 1' or 'kill -1 -sh' exactly do in context?

I had considered modifying inittab (and have done so on other systems in past to change number of available VT's).
However, once that TC doesn't run any getty's by default, i would highly prefer to be able to open (and deallocate) VT's dynamically on the fly, according to needs of given moments (avoiding to have getty's running).

Background for starting this thread:
There are 2 apps of extensions which show some erratic behaviour here on console at times. I intend to report them as bugs, but wanted to troubleshoot first and also exclude that my way of opening VT's (as seen in first post) could play any role.

[gerald_clark]

kill -1 1 = signal init to re-read inittab.
kill -1 -sh = signal initial shell to enable new login on tty1.