*- Andy Spiegl wrote about "What is MARK in /var/log/messages"
| Hi!
|
| In my /var/log/messages there are a lot of lines like this one:
| Sep 9 14:56:58 kira -- MARK --
|
| A new one every 20 minutes to be exact. But I don't see any cron
| job that runs every 20 minutes.
|
| Who knows who writes this and what it means?
%man syslogd
SYSKLOGD(8) Linux System Administration SYSKLOGD(8)
NAME
sysklogd - Linux system logging utilities.
SYNOPSIS
syslogd [ -d ] [ -f config file ] [ -h ] [ -l hostlist ] [
-m interval ] [ -n ] [ -p socket ] [ -r ] [ -s domainlist
] [ -v ]
[snip]
-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.
[snip]
--
Brian
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