Okay, thanks for the explanation! I was looking at the wrong place in the
wrong F...ine manuals.
Jean-Michel Dault
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Steve Philp wrote:
> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 10:38:37 -0400
> From: Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] log file : /var/log/messages
>
> 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 ?
>
> --
> Steve Philp
> Network Administrator
> Advance Packaging Corporation
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