man syslogd:
-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.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Volkan YAZICI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 1:31 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Syslog Garbage
>
> Hi,
>
> Despite I have below lines in my syslog.conf file
>
> auth,authpriv.*;cron.none /var/log/auth.log
> *.*;auth,authpriv,cron.none -/var/log/syslog
> cron.* /var/log/cron.log
> daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
> kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
> lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log
> mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
> user.* -/var/log/user.log
> uucp.* /var/log/uucp.log
> ftp.* /var/log/ftp.log
>
> I see /var/log/syslog filled with below garbage lines:
>
> ...
> Sep 8 11:05:20 arge -- MARK --
> Sep 8 11:25:20 arge -- MARK --
> Sep 8 11:45:21 arge -- MARK --
> ...
> Sep 8 12:05:21 arge -- MARK --
> Sep 8 12:25:21 arge -- MARK --
> Sep 8 12:45:21 arge -- MARK --
> Sep 8 13:05:22 arge -- MARK --
> Sep 8 13:25:22 arge -- MARK --
> ...
>
> What might be causing this garbage output. I couldn't find any related
> cron jobs. Any ideas?
>
>
> Regards.
>
>
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