On Wednesday 04 August 2004 04:15, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
> I have a whole load of entries that look like:
>
> Aug  3 14:48:38 gandalf -- MARK --
> Aug  3 15:08:38 gandalf -- MARK --
> ...

syslogd puts it in /var/log/messages, see 'man syslogd'
The -m option is supposed to turn it off, i remember years ago it was not 
possable to turn it off completly, as to it working now i have not tryed.

>
> These are repeated every 20 minutes. How can I determine where are they
> coming from and what they mean?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -K

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