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

[Andy Spiegl <Andy@spiegl.de>]

> This is syslogd's heartbeat - it tells you that the logger is
> still alive and well.

>        -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.

Thanks a lot!  Now I am wondering what I would have to put in syslog.conf
so that those marks go to a special file, say /var/log/syslog.heartbeat.log

Maybe that's not possible, though.  At least I couldn't find any hint.

Thanks again,
 Andy.

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