From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: messages in /var/log/ Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 11:54:27 -0400 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <411106B3.2040807@gelm.net> References: Reply-To: chuck@gelm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Karthik Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Karthik Vishwanath wrote: > I have a whole load of entries that look like: > > Aug 3 14:48:38 gandalf -- MARK -- > Aug 3 15:08:38 gandalf -- MARK -- > ... > > > These are repeated every 20 minutes. How can I determine where are they > coming from and what they mean? > > Thanks, > > -K Hi, K: Tell us which distribution-release, and kernel version. On my Slackware-9.1, 2.4.22, it comes from /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog in the line /usr/sbin/syslogd the default 'argument value' is 20 minutes -m 20 and can be set to zero (never) with -m 0 See 'man syslogd'. It may be used to determine, approximately, when a system 'died'. HTH, Chuck - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs