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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


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