On Wednesday 29 August 2007 22:52, Sven Joachim wrote: > Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr> writes: > > Before closing this post, and I've still got tail -f /var/log/messages > > running. I keep getting every 20 mins "debian -- MARK --" . What's that > > all about? > > It's only the syslogd who tells you that it is alive and kickin', see > syslogd(8). > > Sven Thanks Sven. Much appreciated. One query resolved. Nigel.