[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>2 strange (to me) messages appear in my /var/log/messages file. Any ideas on
>these?
>
>First, simply:
>
>Nov 28 10:41:52 blackbear -- MARK --
>Nov 28 11:01:52 blackbear -- MARK --
>Nov 28 11:21:52 blackbear -- MARK --
>Nov 28 11:41:52 blackbear -- MARK --
>Nov 28 12:01:52 blackbear -- MARK --
>Nov 28 12:21:52 blackbear -- MARK --
>
>
>Every 20 minutes. No, I don't have any cron or at jobs going at this interval.
The sysklogd(8) man page has this to say:
-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.
>Second is more disturbing...
>
>Nov 22 06:26:53 blackbear kernel: Directory sread (sector 0x1b) failed
>Nov 22 06:26:53 blackbear kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
>Nov 22 06:26:53 blackbear kernel: 02:00: rw=0, want=14, limit=4
>
>This happened a lot at one point. I can't tell what device it's talking about.
According to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt, 02:00 (that is,
the device with major number 2 and minor number 0 - presumably a block
device) is /dev/fd0, your first floppy drive. Knowing floppies, you
*probably* don't need to be too concerned about this.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
