Re: Syslog Garbage

[François Cerbelle <francois@cerbelle.net>]

Le Lun 8 septembre 2008 13:31, Volkan YAZICI a écrit :
>   ...
>   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?

Hi,

When nothing write logs, syslog automatically write periodically a MARK in
the logs.

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


It can help you to know when a system crashed.

Have a nice day


Fanfan
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