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

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

> > BB> Sep 20 11:07:41 yoda -- MARK --
> > 
> 
> Apart from setting this to a ridiculously high number, is there a way to
> disable it?

/etc/syslog.conf

[...]
*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
        auth,authpriv.none;\
        cron,daemon.none;\
        mail,mark.none,news.none                -/var/log/messages
[...]

The `mark.none' above is what you want.
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