Re: [bazsi@balabit.hu: ADMIN request]

[Darren Reed]

In some email I received from der Mouse, sie wrote:
 > 
 > >> I'd like to see a timeout, so that after (say) 10 seconds, the
 > >> "repeated" line is logged anyway even if nothing else has happened.
 > > That's what the "mark" interval is used for in syslogd today.
 > 
 > Except that that ends up cluttering your logfiles with "mark" entries -
 > especially if you crank the interval down to something on the order of
 > the 10 seconds I mentioned.  If there were something like mark that
 > didn't actually make a log entry, that would be almost what I asked
 > for; it certainly would be good enough to keep me happy in this
 > respect.

Simple - don't log mark entries to those files (add "mark.none" as
appropriate to your syslog.conf).

Darren