-- Mark --

gbowden · 02-01-2006, 10:42 AM

Does any one know what the -- MARK -- statements in /var/log/messages are for?

druuna · 02-01-2006, 10:49 AM

Hi,

To show you that syslogd is still active.

You can turn it off if you want to.

In /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog change:

/usr/sbin/syslogd

into:

/usr/sbin/syslogd -m 0

The bold part is for turning the 'mark' message off. Leave other options (if any) as they are.

See man syslogd for details

Hope this helps.

gbowden · 02-01-2006, 10:59 AM

Thanks.
I've turned it off so I don't get any MARK messages any more.
I've got /var/log/messages shown on tty9, and haven't seen any MARK messages since.