kernel very unstable

Paul Dickson dickson@permanentmail.com
Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:01:13 -0700


On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:14:57 -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote:

> Lucas Vogel wrote:
> > I also seem to get a lot of --MARK-- log writes in my messages file. What do
> > those mean?
>  
> Those are inserted just to let you know that things are still running
> while looking through the log files.  They only happen if nothing has
> been written to the syslog file in awhile.  There is a way to turn
> them off (not sure why you would want to) but I don't remember how
> offhand.

I was looking at the syslogd init script just last night in RH.  It mentions
that it's starting syslogd without the tick marks. ("syslogd -m 0").  Check
out the man page for more info.

	-Paul