Re: -- MARK -- in /var/log/messages
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Steve Haslam wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 09:37:19PM +0100, Paul Lemmens wrote:
> > I recently started wondering what the -- MARK -- lines in
> > /var/log/messages represent. I cannot explain them logically, nor have I
> > found a daemon that's responsible for these lines.
> >
> > Can anybody help out?
>
> the MARK lines are created internally by syslogd afaik. The have the
> psuedo-facility "mark". To get rid of them, add "!mark.*" or sth like that
> to the relevant line in /etc/syslog.conf.
>
> The mark lines are useful for adding a sense of timescale to a busy logfile.
> If two entries have lots of MARK lines inbetween them, you know they
> happened quite a while apart without having to look at the timestamps at the
> start of the lines. otoh, if you're logging to a console window/vt, the mark
> lines are just annoying imho.
>
> > TIA!
>
> HTH
>
> SRH
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Hi,
They are also there for an other reason (so, I have read here, some time
ago). Because there needs to be some test if syslogd is still running
(or capable to write to the file, stuff like thet),
that's why they use this way.
Hope that helps,
Leen.
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