David Mihm wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: > > > As you can see, these are logged every 20 minutes, and it's been > > happening since the beginning of the machine. What causes this, > > and can I or should I turn this off? > > > > Sep 20 01:52:31 rebel -- MARK -- > > >From the man page for syslogd: > > -m interval > The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The > default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20 > minutes. This can be changed with this option. > Setting the interval to zero turns it off entirely. > > ... from someone who writes man pages, man pages are your friend. :) > Thanks. I'd have *never* thought to look in the man page. Stuff is written in /var/log/messages from so many sources, who'da thunk that syslogd does it? In hindsight, though, since a process name isn't listed, I should have realized (by process of elimination) that syslogd does it. Ron -- +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com | | Most underused word: think | +----------------------------------------------------------+
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