22Jan
MARK lines in messages log
Posted by admin | Category: Debian, Questions & Answers | No Comments
I’ve found the following lines in /var/log/messages on my Debian server recently:
Jan 5 12:13:09 www — MARK –
Jan 5 12:33:09 www — MARK –
Jan 5 12:53:10 www — MARK –
Jan 5 13:13:12 www — MARK –
…
What’s this?
It’s just a normal activity of syslog placing timestamp marks into /var/log/messages indicating that it’s still alive. It happens every 20 minutes by default. If you want to switch off this marking just look at /etc/init.d/sysklogd and add the interval parameter to SYSLOGD constant: “-m xxx” where xxx is an interval. To disable marking completely set “-m” parameter to zero: “-m 0″.