Only a guess, but an informed one -- you have a crontab entry or an "at"
command that does this. Check your cron jobs.
At 10:14 AM 6/9/99 +1000, Steve Youngs wrote:
>
> I've noticed something strange being logged to /var/log/messages
>and was wondering if anyone could shed some light on it...
>
><------Excerpt From Log------>
>Jun 9 04:45:20 slackware -- MARK --
>Jun 9 05:05:20 slackware -- MARK --
>Jun 9 05:25:20 slackware -- MARK --
>Jun 9 05:45:20 slackware -- MARK --
>Jun 9 06:05:20 slackware -- MARK --
>Jun 9 06:25:20 slackware -- MARK --
>Jun 9 06:45:20 slackware -- MARK --
>Jun 9 07:05:20 slackware -- MARK --
><------End------>
>
> As you can see, it's happening every 20 minutes and when you run
>your machine 24/7 like a lot of us do it can make for some pretty large
>log files in next to no time.
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