On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 07:33:35PM -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Only a guess, but an informed one -- you have a crontab entry or an "at"
> command that does this. Check your cron jobs.
Nyet.
> 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.
This is your friend syslogd.
type: man syslogd
and you'll get all the info you need.
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