You mean all the "-- MARK --" entries? man syslogd: -m interval The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20 minutes. This can be changed with this option. Setting the interval to zero turns it off entirely. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 14:02, a.bridge@insightbb.com wrote:
I think I may have a problem with probing on my ProFtpd server. The log files are showing:
/USR/SBIN/CRON[7835]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly)
Jan 22 20:22:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 22 20:42:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 22 20:59:00 linux /USR/SBIN/CRON[7910]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Jan 22 21:22:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 22 21:42:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 22 21:59:00 linux /USR/SBIN/CRON[7985]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Jan 22 22:22:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 22 22:42:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 22 22:59:00 linux /USR/SBIN/CRON[8059]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Jan 22 23:22:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 22 23:42:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 22 23:59:00 linux /USR/SBIN/CRON[8134]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Jan 23 00:22:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 23 00:42:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 23 00:59:00 linux /USR/SBIN/CRON[8208]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Jan 23 01:22:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 23 01:42:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 23 01:59:00 linux /USR/SBIN/CRON[8283]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Jan 23 02:22:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 23 02:42:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 23 02:59:00 linux /USR/SBIN/CRON[8358]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Jan 23 03:22:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 23 03:42:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 23 03:59:00 linux /USR/SBIN/CRON[8432]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Jan 23 04:14:00 linux /USR/SBIN/CRON[8452]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily) Jan 23 04:42:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 23 04:59:00 linux /USR/SBIN/CRON[8575]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Jan 23 05:22:02 linux -- MARK -- Jan 23 05:42:03 linux -- MARK -- Jan 23 05:59:00 linux /USR/SBIN/CRON[8649]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Jan 23 06:22:03 linux -- MARK -- Jan 23 06:42:03 linux -- MARK -- Jan 23 06:59:00 linux /USR/SBIN/CRON[8724]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/
I'm a newbie to linux, this is why I'm asking.
Thanks as always