Re: messages in /var/log/

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 -- ... These are repeated every 20 minutes. How can I determine where are they coming from and what they mean? Thanks, -K Hi, K: Tell us which distribution

Re: messages in /var/log/

At 10:15 PM 8/3/2004 -0400, 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 -- ... These are repeated every 20 minutes. How can I determine where are they coming from and what they mean? Second things first

Re: messages in /var/log/

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 rememb

Re: messages in /var/log/

these are in /var/log/messages. sorry for the omission. -K On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, at 10:15pm, 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 -- > ... > > > These are repeated every 20 minutes

messages in /var/log/

I have a whole load of entries that look like: Aug 3 14:48:38 gandalf -- MARK -- Aug 3 15:08:38 gandalf -- MARK -- ... These are repeated every 20 minutes. How can I determine where are they coming from and what they mean? Thanks, -K - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc