Unwanted syslog printing

[Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN]

dt is spot on. they are timestamp entries generated by syslod itself.
they are usefull and show thet status of the logger itself.

wonder if it might not serve the purpose by shutting down syslod if the
machine is 
that in-active or when cron rolls these you could have a script ignor them
by using 'cat syslog | grep -v "-- MARK --"' > new_syslog and archive it
w/out
the timestamp. 

~piranha
 

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of doubletwist
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 6:28 AM
To: ubuntu-users
Subject: Re: Unwanted syslog printing


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

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