RE: Syslog Garbage

[Tammo Schuelke <tas@redlink.de>]

man syslogd:

-m interval
	The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20 minutes.
	This can be changed with this option.  Setting the interval to zero turns it off entirely.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Volkan YAZICI [mailto:yazicivo@ttmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 1:31 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Syslog Garbage
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Despite I have below lines in my syslog.conf file
> 
>   auth,authpriv.*;cron.none   /var/log/auth.log
>   *.*;auth,authpriv,cron.none -/var/log/syslog
>   cron.*                      /var/log/cron.log
>   daemon.*                    -/var/log/daemon.log
>   kern.*                      -/var/log/kern.log
>   lpr.*                       -/var/log/lpr.log
>   mail.*                      -/var/log/mail.log
>   user.*                      -/var/log/user.log
>   uucp.*                      /var/log/uucp.log
>   ftp.*                       /var/log/ftp.log
> 
> I see /var/log/syslog filled with below garbage lines:
> 
>   ...
>   Sep  8 11:05:20 arge -- MARK --
>   Sep  8 11:25:20 arge -- MARK --
>   Sep  8 11:45:21 arge -- MARK --
>   ...
>   Sep  8 12:05:21 arge -- MARK --
>   Sep  8 12:25:21 arge -- MARK --
>   Sep  8 12:45:21 arge -- MARK --
>   Sep  8 13:05:22 arge -- MARK --
>   Sep  8 13:25:22 arge -- MARK --
>   ...
> 
> What might be causing this garbage output. I couldn't find any related
> cron jobs. Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
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