Oh, cool, I always wanted to know why I was getting those messages! And now I see why our production server does not show this behavior (it is always busy logging mail and lots of other things like DNS zone transfers, etc.)
peloy.- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a long /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog contain the > following. Can any one tell me what is the cause? > Thanks > > .... > Jul 5 10:28:19 superman -- MARK -- > Jul 5 10:48:19 superman -- MARK -- > > From the manpage: > > -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. > > If syslogd does not write any information within 20 minutes to > logfiles, it will mark a timestamp - intended to let you know that > syslogd is running. > > Dennis > -- > Dennis Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | phone: 353.4844 > Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
