On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 06:10:53AM +0400, Steve Sykes wrote:
> Every 20 minutes, a message with the time,date,hostname and -- MARK -- shows
> up on the screen when I tail the messages file. What is this?
It's just a marker so you can see that the system logs are still running.
It might be useful to track whether changes have been made to the logs, but
it's probably more useful if you're having crash problems with either the
daemon itself or your system. By checking the timestamp on the last
--MARK--, you can see when it died.
To get rid of it, add "-m0" to the end of the statement "daemon syslogd" on
line 21 of /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog.
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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