On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 08:29:33PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- Greg Starkes wrote about "/var/log/messages" > | > | When I watch /var/log/messages i see the following > | > | Aug 26 18:51:45 greyhawk -- MARK -- > | Aug 26 19:11:45 greyhawk -- MARK -- > | Aug 26 19:31:45 greyhawk -- MARK -- > | <snip> > | Aug 26 21:31:45 greyhawk -- MARK -- > | Aug 26 22:11:45 greyhawk -- MARK -- > | Aug 26 22:31:45 greyhawk -- MARK -- > | <ad nausiem> > | > | As you can see, this happens every 20 minutes. What is doing this? It is a > | pain when I am tailing this file. > | > > [snip] > > It lets you know the machine is alive and kicking, especially for remote > monitoring. > > -- > Brian > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, > because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." > - unknown > > Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >
With linux i learn something new every day. I was wondering about those strange MARK messages too. But it doesn't look very dangerous so i didn't cared. Good to know this linux machine has a heartbeat too ;-) BTW, does anybody know how to check in a bash script, wheter a PPP connection is already up ? The /var/run/ppp0.pid file is already created when the modem is still dialing the phone number. bye, Stefan
