Unwanted syslog printing

[doubletwist]

janne wrote:

> For some reason, syslog is occasionally printing stuff onto the active
> terminal. Every twenty minutes, I get a "localhost -- MARK --" line from
> syslog. Postfix, too, was printing some warnings regularily until I got
> fed up and stopped the daemon altogether (why is it running at all, btw?
> No other "real" server stuff is running by default after all). It goes
> without saying that this behavior is getting rather annoying.
> 
> I sort of suspect it's the xconsole-related lines in /etc/syslog.conf
> that are the cause. Is there any good reason to not just comment away
> that thing altogether?
> 
> 
> 

I believe if you put -m 0  after the syslogd line in /etc/init.d it will 
stop putting those MARK's. Or you can put -m n  to make the MARK entries 
every n minutes. I think they're just there to give an indication that 
syslog is still running properly if there is nothing else being logged.

DT