Re: newbie help: spourious messages in var/log/messages

[martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de (Martin Bialasinski)]

>> "BB" == Bruno Boettcher <bboett@erm1.u-strasbg.fr> writes:

BB> noticed an annoynace in messages:
BB> lots of messages of the following type:
BB> Sep 20 09:27:40 yoda syslogd 1.3-3#26: restart.
BB> Sep 20 09:47:40 yoda -- MARK --
BB> Sep 20 10:07:40 yoda -- MARK --
BB> Sep 20 10:27:40 yoda -- MARK --
BB> Sep 20 10:47:40 yoda -- MARK --
BB> Sep 20 11:07:41 yoda -- MARK --

These are "I am still there" kind of messages. See man syslogd

       -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.

Ciao,
	Martin