Re: Strange /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog

[Ingemar Fällman <Ingemar.Fallman@UMDAC.UmU.SE>]

Don't worry about it.
-- MARK -- is there to tell you that the sytem was up and runing.
So with the marks you can see if your system has been down for example between1am and 5am.

/Ingemar

Debian User wrote:

>     My /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog files looks very strange. I
> attached them to this mail. Can you tell me why the lines are marked
> like this ? I have installed potato.
>
> Adrian Nims
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Oct  8 06:48:12 ady syslogd 1.3-3#33.1: restart.
> Oct  8 07:11:16 ady -- MARK --
> Oct  8 07:31:16 ady -- MARK --
>
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Oct 10 06:25:38 ady syslogd 1.3-3#33.1: restart.
> Oct 10 06:38:01 ady /USR/SBIN/CRON[5857]: (mail) CMD (  if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q >/dev/null 2>&1; fi)
> Oct 10 06:51:16 ady -- MARK --

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