>> "BB" == Bruno Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BB> noticed an annoynace in messages: BB> lots of messages of the following type: BB> Sep 20 09:27:40 yoda syslogd 1.3-3#26: restart. BB> Sep 20 09:47:40 yoda -- MARK -- BB> Sep 20 10:07:40 yoda -- MARK -- BB> Sep 20 10:27:40 yoda -- MARK -- BB> Sep 20 10:47:40 yoda -- MARK -- BB> Sep 20 11:07:41 yoda -- MARK -- These are "I am still there" kind of messages. See 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. Ciao, Martin