Re: I'm a -- MARK --'ed user.

[Bill Benedetto <bbenedetto@goodyear.com>]

>>> Narins, Josh writes:

  Josh> I know I had help figuring this out a couple years ago, but I don't
  Josh> remember, and it's impossible to google (the dashes are stripped if you
  Josh> try).
  Josh>
  Josh> On my console, on a woody 486, I see, regularly...
  Josh>
  Josh> -- MARK --
  Josh> [ 30 or so seconds pass]
  Josh> -- MARK --
  Josh>
  Josh> And I am quite sure I do not like feeling like a -- MARK --'ed person.

Doesn't this come from the default syslogd configuration?

>From the syslogd manpage:

       -m interval
              The syslogd logs a mark timestamp  regularly.   The
              default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20
              minutes.  This can be  changed  with  this  option.
              Setting the interval to zero turns it off entirely.

HTH,

- Bill
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