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Re: syslogd regular marks on Debian



Let me count the ways:
One One Thousand
Two One Thousand
Three One Thousand

I'll give a few uses:
A. Know that the reason no logs were seen was because nothing happened, 
and not, say, because syslogd could not write to the logs
B. Test your APM settings, by spinning your HD back up just as it was 
spinning down due to no-use.
C. If your system reboots unexpectedly - know when that happened 
(approximatly).
D. Justify buying a bigger HD.
E. Making sure there WILL be prolems when you root partition gets full 
(not that I log to my root partition, but....)

If you don't find any uses, feel free to switch it off.

            Shachar


Rymland, Boaz (Boaz) wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>On my Debian system (unstable) I have this pretty annoying syslogd
>regularly intervaled stamp "-- MARK --" printed every so and so minutes.
>After some reading in the manpage (man syslogd) I saw this can be
>altered (and even disabled) with the "-m" flag (following an optional
>integer). 
>
>Can someone point the advantages of such an option, other than just
>seeing the syslogd is alive? (which of course can be useful sometimes).
>
>Thanks,
>Boaz.
>
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