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Date:      Fri, 3 May 2002 15:37:09 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
To:        Oi Yan <oiyanca@yahoo.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /var/log/message
Message-ID:  <20020503143709.GA10336@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020503143003.7504.qmail@web21508.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020503143003.7504.qmail@web21508.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:30:03AM -0400, Oi Yan wrote:
> 
> I checked the /var/log/message and got the wordings
> 
> May  3 22:00:44 free -- MARK --
> 
> What is this meaning?

It's just a mark message that syslog prints (every 20 minutes by default)
to let you know it hasn't died.

See the manpages for syslogd (-m flag) and syslog.conf (mark facility).

Ceri

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