Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
>
> I think that when there is a -- MARK -- that means the file has been
> processed by the "logrotate" program, but either was too small or not old
> enough to rotate.
Actually, it's just a timestamp put there by syslogd. It's so you can
see when syslogd died if there is a system problem.
If you want to turn them off, add the option '-m0' to the syslog file in
/etc/rc.d/init.d/.
> >
> > Another question:
> > I can see in my /var/log/messages some lines like :
> > Sep 5 09:19:21 <my hostname> -- MARK --
> >
> > I don't know the meaning of that ...
> >
> > Any clue ?
> >
> >
> > Frederic PLE wrote:
> >
> > > Hi again.
> > >
> > > I would like to know why sometimes I have new files in /var/log called
>messages.1 messages.2 etc ?
> > > Should I understand that regularly the system makes a backup called messages.x
>and reset the messages file ?
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