To quote "Marco C ." <magicdice@inwind.it>, # Hi buddies! # Why sometimes in my logs magically appears the line # date,time host -- MARK -- # What does this MARK mean? # Thanks in advance, marco For the life of me, I can't remember what they mean. But I'm pretty sure it's a command flag - 'man syslogd' shoud tell you, I think. Dave