Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:34:01 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: --MARK--, what is it? Message-ID: <20000627093401.A19374@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000627113253.mj@isy.liu.se>; from "Micke Josefsson" on Tue Jun 27 11:32:53 GMT 2000 References: <XFMail.000627113253.mj@isy.liu.se>
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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
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