From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 26 5:24:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78AAF37B40B for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 05:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2302B701; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 14:24:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7AFC891; Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:23:49 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:23:49 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: setantae Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: syslogd(8) question Message-ID: <20010826222349.C29422@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , setantae , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20010826131757.A362@rhadamanth> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010826131757.A362@rhadamanth>; from setantae@submonkey.net on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 01:17:57PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 01:17:57PM +0100, setantae wrote: > Could someone please explain what this extract from syslogd(8) means ? > > -m Select the number of minutes between ``mark'' messages; the > default is 20 minutes. > > This isn't mentioned anywhere else in the manpage. It will write "mark" to the mark-facility. Just to show it's still up and running. (afaik :-) See also syslog.conf(5) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message