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Re: [suse-security] excessive marks
  • From: Karl Heinz Kremer <khk@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 07:52:28 -0500
  • Message-id: <20000103075228.B9999@xxxxxxx>
This is done by the syslogd daemon. You can configure the frequency with
the -m <interval> switch. The default is 20 minutes (which is exactly
what you're seeing).

When you set it to "0", the marks are turned off.

Karl Heinz

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 04:38:44AM -0800, Chrissy LeMaire wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas about this? Perhaps I'm not used to a not-so-active
> machine..but it seems I have way too many "mark"s in my /var/log/messages
> file -- 1289 since dec 1
>
> Jan 3 00:00:05 box su: (to nobody) root on none
> Jan 3 00:16:57 box -- MARK --
> Jan 3 00:36:57 box -- MARK --
> Jan 3 00:56:57 box -- MARK --
> Jan 3 01:16:57 box -- MARK --
> Jan 3 01:36:57 box -- MARK --
> Jan 3 01:56:57 box -- MARK --
> Jan 3 02:16:57 box -- MARK --
> Jan 3 02:36:57 box -- MARK --
> Jan 3 02:56:57 box -- MARK --
> Jan 3 03:16:57 box -- MARK --
> Jan 3 03:36:57 box -- MARK --
> Jan 3 03:56:57 box -- MARK --
> Jan 3 04:16:57 box -- MARK --
>
> etc etc etc
>
>
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