Odd recurring message in /var/log/messages
I've noticed this for a while and wanted to see what this was. For a while now, probably a couple of months this particular message has been appearing my "messages" log file.
May 18 04:40:02 mybox syslogd 1.4.1: restart. May 20 20:01:53 mybox -- MARK -- May 20 20:21:53 mybox -- MARK -- May 20 20:41:53 mybox -- MARK -- May 20 21:01:53 mybox -- MARK -- May 20 21:21:53 mybox -- MARK -- May 20 21:41:53 mybox -- MARK -- May 20 22:01:53 mybox -- MARK -- The MARK is what confuses me. It happens literally every twenty minutes. I thought it could be related to something with iptables, because I vaguely remember that being a target in iptables. Thanks in advance. |
why dont you use 'iptables - L' and check if it really is specified in the iptables rules and see if logging is enabled for that rule
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Restarting syslogd with "-m 0" should work AFAIK.
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The syslog daemon can be set to write a "MARK" into the file if no other messages have been written. It can be useful for finding out when a system has crashed/stopped responding. |
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