Unwanted syslog printing

[Lamont Doss]

the postfix stuff is coming from the fact that its not setup

You are supposed to have a .db for the following:
access
aliases
canonical
relocated
transport
virtual



On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 08:28 -0500, doubletwist wrote:
> 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
> 
Lamont Doss
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