[wellylug] MARK

[Pete Black]

Some distros configure syslog this way - its just an indicator that 
syslog is running. the 'MARK' means nothing, except that syslog was 
running at that time.

If you want to turn it off (this may be specific to debian/ubuntu) i 
think you can pass -m 0 (or -m <minutes> to change the frequency) to 
syslogd in /etc/default/syslogd. You will need to restart syslog to 
apply this change.

-Pete
> Nov 28 03:41:39 arwen -- MARK --
> Nov 28 04:01:39 arwen -- MARK --
> Nov 28 04:21:39 arwen -- MARK --
> Nov 28 04:41:40 arwen -- MARK --
> Nov 28 05:01:40 arwen -- MARK --
> Nov 28 05:21:40 arwen -- MARK --
> Nov 28 05:41:40 arwen -- MARK --
> Nov 28 06:01:40 arwen -- MARK --
> Nov 28 06:21:40 arwen -- MARK --
> Nov 28 06:41:40 arwen -- MARK --
> Nov 28 07:01:40 arwen -- MARK --
> Nov 28 07:21:40 arwen -- MARK --
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> What is this telling me.  I cannot get a useful hint on Google.  It is a 
> system utility at 20 minute intervals, and Samba is running but not 
> seeing the rest of the LAN.  Normal network connections asak.
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> Lindsay
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