MARK in /var/log/messages

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:04, Jim wrote:
> I am getting a lot of "MARK" messages on several of my Debian boxes. I
> have read that they are heartbeat type messages for syslog saying
> everything is running well, but I have never noticed them until
> recently, is this really normal or is there a problem with my system?
>
>
>
> Jan 9 10:51:16 sid -- MARK --
> Jan 9 11:11:16 sid -- MARK --
> Jan 9 11:31:16 sid -- MARK --
> Jan 9 11:51:16 sid -- MARK --
> Jan 9 12:11:16 sid -- MARK --
> Jan 9 12:31:16 sid -- MARK --
> Jan 9 12:51:16 sid -- MARK --
> Jan 9 13:11:16 sid -- MARK --
> Jan 9 13:31:16 sid -- MARK --
> Jan 9 13:51:16 sid -- MARK --
---
clearly a disciple of Mussolini but Benito is no longer with us.

I didn't think that there was a daemon capable of hitting the time
exactly 20 minutes on the spot.

did you edit your firewall (iptables) lately, it's common to use the
MARK command there. Perhaps there is a misconfiguration, a quote that
didn't unquote or something.

Craig