Rob Blomquist wrote (09-02-2006 06:41):
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 8:31 pm, Alexander Schmehl so eloquently stated:
That's just your syslogs way to say "I'm still alive and bored". Note
the 20 minute intervalls between the entries.
Interesting. I have never had syslogd become bored with any other distro. And
now, I learn that Debian is boring.
These marks are very useful if you have a server that locks up for some
unknown reason. Looking at the last mark in the syslog will give you an
idea about when it happened, which can often be a help tracking down the
cause of the problem.
More that saying its bored, the systems tells you its still alive, which
is nice to know.
I have an entry in /etc/syslog.conf which says
*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
auth,authpriv.none;\
cron,daemon.none;\
mail,news.none -/var/log/messages
If you change it to
*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
auth,authpriv.none;\
cron,daemon.none;\
mail,news,mark.none -/var/log/messages
you won't get the MARK messages, and thanks to Murphy you will soon miss
them :-)
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René Seindal ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
