* i'll teach you to turn away. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030625 22:46]: > second issue: i have NO idea if this is related, but it'd be swell > if someone could tell me what this "-- MARK --" crap in my messages log > is, & how i can make my new box stop doing it at :10, :30 & :50 on the > hour. there's nothing in crontab.
Syslog MARKs every 20 minutes (by default). These MARKs give you an easy visual cue that (a) it's still running, and (b) how often messages are coming in. When you're scanning through the logs, it's an easy way to tell when events are clumped together, or how far apart, without having to look over and find the timestamp. You can change the frequency of the MARKs by specifying an '-m' option to the syslogd invocation in /etc/init.d/sysklogd . Find a line that says SYSLOGD="" and change it to SYSLOGD="-m 60", for example, to make it mark every hour instead of 3 times an hour. You can disable the MARKs altogether by specifying SYSLOGD="-m 0". good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- #include<stdio.h> int main() { puts("Reader! Think not that \n" "technical information \n" "ought not be called speech;"); return 0; }
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