How can I spawn shells in all my virtual terminals

[Tom Reingold]

I managed to learn to use the vt?? devices so I hit Alt-F1, Alt-F2,
etc. for different virtual terminals.  Is there a way to set up
/etc/inittab so that once I log into the console, a shell is spawned on
the vt's?  Or should I do this somewhere else, such as in
$HOME/.profile?
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