On Sunday 19 September 2004 23:08, Stefan O'Rear wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:57:31PM +0300, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > > To make sure the system was alive at that time, syslog periodically > > writes such messages to /var/log/messages: > > > > Sep 19 22:09:27 debian -- MARK -- > > Sep 19 22:29:27 debian -- MARK -- > > Sep 19 22:49:27 debian -- MARK -- > > > > How is it possible to adjust the frequency of such entries? I'd > > like to make it less frequent than 20 minutes. > > RTM > > |From syslogd (8): > > -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. > > |From /etc/init.d/sysklogd: > > # Options for start/restart the daemons > # For remote UDP logging use SYSLOGD="-r" > # > SYSLOGD="" > > ^ change that to: > > SYSLOGD="-m 60"
Ah, thanks! I was reading the manual page syslog.conf (5) (which doesn't mention these MARKs) and the configuration file and forgot to check the syslogd (8) man page :-P Cheers -A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]