From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 7:34:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F334937B9E0 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:34:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA19988; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:34:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:34:01 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Micke Josefsson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: --MARK--, what is it? Message-ID: <20000627093401.A19374@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.4i In-Reply-To: ; from "Micke Josefsson" on Tue Jun 27 11:32:53 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 27), Micke Josefsson said: > > In my lab with clients NFS-mounted they start printing --MARK-- all > over their screens whenever the server is halted (by me). Funny thing > is that they do not appear on all clients, nor do they go away when > the server is brought up again. What are they? I've localized the > origin to syslogd.c but I for one cannot fathom what it is good for. > And why does it show up on the client? The latter are running just > fine and I can login to them and so on. It doesn't have anything to do with NFS. Syslog generates a "MARK" log entry every 20 minutes, possibly to let you know the machine hasn't crashed (?). Try removing any -m ## switches from syslogd_flags in /etc/rc.conf. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message