Re: /var/log/messages entry??

[Shot <shot@hot.pl>]

Hello.

Ishwar Rattan:

> I see entries of the form (in /var/log/messages):
> 
> Aug 18 13:54:45 Hostname -- MARK --
> Aug 18 14:14:45 Hostname -- MARK --
> 
> with a frequency of 20 minutes. What
> is the significance of such entries?

It means nothing worth logging happened during these 20 minutes.
Syslog adds these lines to let you know it's working fine (otherwise
you could suspect the lack of messages means syslog is somehow broken).

Cheers,
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