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Re: --MARK-- each twenty minutes



Previously Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote:
>         Now my question is obvious... and just out of curiosity... where
> does this come from? I have SO many packages installed that it is not easy to
> track who has changed in order to make this (processes are also difficult to
> track).

This is becoming somewhat of a FAQ. The mark messages are made by
syslogd, to show it is still alive and nobody has deleted a part of
your logfile. If you don't want to see them you should add the -m
option to the syslogd invocation in /etc/init.d/sysklogd .

Wichert.

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