Re: What is MARK in /var/log/messages

[servis@purdue.edu]

*- Andy Spiegl wrote about "What is MARK in /var/log/messages"
| Hi!
| 
| In my /var/log/messages there are a lot of lines like this one:
|  Sep  9 14:56:58 kira -- MARK --
| 
| A new one every 20 minutes to be exact.  But I don't see any cron
| job that runs every 20 minutes.
| 
| Who knows who writes this and what it means?

%man syslogd

SYSKLOGD(8)        Linux System Administration        SYSKLOGD(8)


NAME
       sysklogd - Linux system logging utilities.

SYNOPSIS
       syslogd [ -d ] [ -f config file ] [ -h ] [ -l hostlist ] [
       -m interval ] [ -n ] [ -p socket ] [ -r ] [ -s  domainlist
       ] [ -v ]


[snip]
       -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.

[snip]


-- 
Brian 
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