Re: - MARK --
Oh, cool, I always wanted to know why I was getting those messages!
And now I see why our production server does not show this behavior
(it is always busy logging mail and lots of other things like DNS zone
transfers, etc.)
peloy.-
dpk <dpk@egr.msu.edu> wrote:
> I have a long /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog contain the
> following. Can any one tell me what is the cause?
> Thanks
>
> ....
> Jul 5 10:28:19 superman -- MARK --
> Jul 5 10:48:19 superman -- MARK --
>
> From the 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.
>
> If syslogd does not write any information within 20 minutes to
> logfiles, it will mark a timestamp - intended to let you know that
> syslogd is running.
>
> Dennis
> --
> Dennis Kelly <dpk@egr.msu.edu> | phone: 353.4844
> Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875
--
Eloy A. Paris
Information Technology Department
Rockwell Automation Venezuela
Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645
--
Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
Reply to: