On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:16:52AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > Thus spake Marvin Massih: > > My third problem is that "--MARK--" appears contineously in > > "/var/log/messages". A friend of mine used to have the same problem > > with his SuSE, but there the message was printed on the console. In > > debian-user-de, I was told that this is just for me to see when > > twenty minutes have passed, but however, I want to get rid of it! > > MARK is just printed in the log to let you know the daemon is up and > running - I don't think you can get rid of it without some serious > hacking.
See the syslogd(8) man page. If syslogd is started with the '-m 0' option, it will never print the '-- MARK --'. Personally I prefer leaving it there - it's been useful on the odd occasion when I came back to a crashed machine and wanted to find out when it fell over. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
