messages in /var/log/

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

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Re: messages in /var/log/

these are in /var/log/messages.

sorry for the omission.

-K


On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, at 10:15pm, 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
>

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Re: messages in /var/log/

At 10:15 PM 8/3/2004 -0400, 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?

Second things first ... what they mean is that the system was operational
at the times associated with the timestamps. If you try to log on to your
system and find it dead as a doornail, needing a hard reboot, the last MARK
you find in the logs after a reboot will tell you the approximate time of
the failure.

As to where they are coming from ... on my Debian systems, it's a built-in
feature of syslogd. Check your man page for the -m option to see if yours
matches mine (I haven't seen a question from you in awhile, and I forget
what distro you are running). You can change the frequency with -m, and 20
minutes is the default.



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Re: messages in /var/log/

On Wednesday 04 August 2004 04:15, 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 --
> ...

syslogd puts it in /var/log/messages, see 'man syslogd'
The -m option is supposed to turn it off, i remember years ago it was not
possable to turn it off completly, as to it working now i have not tryed.

>
> These are repeated every 20 minutes. How can I determine where are they
> coming from and what they mean?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -K

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Re: messages in /var/log/

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


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