Hi,
On Fri, 19 May 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> /var/messages has a "-- MARK --" every 20 minutes; why?
If a problem arises, you can see what time it showed up. E. g. I once
was running an analysis on my Atari TT with Debian 2.0. The analysis
presumably would have taken 9 days, but never got to an end, because the
power supply of the external harddrive on which Debian was installed,
broke down. When I came back to university to have a look at the
results, the system hung. After transplanting the SyQuest drive to a new
external box, I could see at what time the "MARK" stopped. For the
analysis, it wasn't important, but in other situations it might
be useful to know the time the breakdown took place.
Regards,
Kerstin
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