I have a whole load of entries that look like:
Aug 3 14:48:38 gandalf -- MARK -- Aug 3 15:08:38 gandalf -- MARK -- ...
These are repeated every 20 minutes. How can I determine where are they coming from and what they mean?
Second things first ... what they mean is that the system was operational at the times associated with the timestamps. If you try to log on to your system and find it dead as a doornail, needing a hard reboot, the last MARK you find in the logs after a reboot will tell you the approximate time of the failure.
As to where they are coming from ... on my Debian systems, it's a built-in feature of syslogd. Check your man page for the -m option to see if yours matches mine (I haven't seen a question from you in awhile, and I forget what distro you are running). You can change the frequency with -m, and 20 minutes is the default.
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