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Date:      Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:23:49 +1000
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        setantae <setantae@submonkey.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: syslogd(8) question
Message-ID:  <20010826222349.C29422@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010826131757.A362@rhadamanth>; from setantae@submonkey.net on Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 01:17:57PM %2B0100
References:  <20010826131757.A362@rhadamanth>

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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
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