Re: newbie help: spourious messages in var/log/messages
On 24 Sep 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
>
> >> "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.
Apart from setting this to a ridiculously high number, is there a way to
disable it?
Michael Beattie (mickyb@es.co.nz)
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