On Sun 2012-08-26 (19:34), Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 26 August 2012 18:32:23 Gareth de Vaux wrote: > > $ cat /etc/issue > > Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l > > What do the \n and \l mean? I have googled, but got nowhere. Well, nowhere > useful. :-( See under ISSUE ESCAPES in the agetty manpage.