Essentially, you just need to put your script in place of the getty (or variant). I'm not familiar enough with BSD to know if it is handled in exacly the same manner, but for a typical linux distro, you control this in your /etc/inittab file. I haven't monkeyed with it myself, but I think that you could get away with just changing: 
  1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1

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to 
  1:2345:respawn:/sbin/myscript.pl tty1

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Anyway, that's a good place to start trying. 
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In reply to Re: Replacing a Tty with a perl script by etcshadow
in thread Replacing a Tty with a perl script by MiggyMan

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