If nothing is logged for a twenty minute period, "-- MARK --" gets added to your syslog basically to let you know that the machine is alive. It also helps if something happens and the box crashes, you can narrow down a bit when it occured.
j. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 7:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: strange log Hi I found this in log, what it is Dec 30 06:50:55 debian syslogd 1.3-3#33.1: restart. Dec 30 07:13:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 07:33:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 07:53:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 08:13:36 debian -- MARK -- Dec 30 08:33:36 debian -- MARK -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
