9 Aug
2000
9 Aug
'00
20:10
On Don, Aug 10, 2000 at 08:46:18 +0200, Michael Schoenwiese wrote: [...]
Since some days, my /var/log/messages shows every 20 minutes following lines, then sometimes it stops a few days doing so and sometimes it start doing it.
Aug 8 00:12:30 mail -- MARK --
[...] It's not a bug, it's a feature ;-) This message is produced by syslogd and occurs when there's nothing to log at a time of 20 minutes. You can call it the *heartbeat* of your system. You see that the system is alive and if the machine crashes for instance in a power failure you can get the approximated time of the crash. Jan