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> And as a side note: What the hell is this doing in my syslogs?
> Apr 14 19:17:37 mikepery -- MARK --
syslogd will (optionally) write a "MARK" to the log periodically, as a
timestamp. This can be handy to verify that your syslogd is in fact writing
log messages, etc (or to give you a "last known alive" stamp on a system
which crashes w/o logging anything after a long period of idle time).
syslogd writes marks if you have specified the 'mark' facility in
/etc/syslog.conf. Typically 'mark' seems not to be implied by a wildcard (as
in "*.debug") but YMMV. The default mark interval is IIRC 20 min, but this
can be changed by adding a "-m <somenumber>" flag to syslogd at startup.
> My system must be haunted.
;)
Hank Leininger <hlein@progressive-comp.com>
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