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
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