From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 5:16:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nowcool.com (FX3-1-119.mgfairfax.rr.com [24.28.200.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B3914C92 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 05:16:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@blink.dhs.org) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by nowcool.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA94307; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 08:15:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd@blink.dhs.org) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 08:15:00 -0400 (EDT) From: FreeBSD Mailing List X-Sender: freebsd@nowcool.com To: Gene Sokolov Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Message "--MARK--" on the console. In-Reply-To: <171f01bee328$2e22c460$0d8cdac3@aktrad.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "mark" is one of the "facilities" that you can define/undefine in /etc/syslog.conf try man 5 syslog.conf if it bothers you, you can add ";mark.none" on the line that defines syslog output messages to /dev/console. FYI, man says: " The special facility ``mark'' receives a message at priority ``info'' ev- ery 20 minutes (see syslogd(8)). This is not enabled by a facility field containing an asterisk. The special level ``none'' disables a particular facility. " Byung Yang On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Gene Sokolov wrote: > Once in a while a message --MARK-- appears on the console monitor. No one is > logged in at the console. It looks like this: > > **********begin*********** > FreeBSD (inferno.aktrad.ru) (ttyv0) > > Jun 08 17:23:11 inferno su: tkr to root on /dev/ttyp1 > Jul 10 12:14:54 inferno su: hook to root on /dev/ttyp2 > -- MARK -- > Aug 4 15:35:27 inferno su: tkr to root on /dev/ttyp0 > **********end************* > > What is this "-- MARK --" about and which app prints it? It does not appears > in the logs. > > FreeBSD 2.2.8 > > Thanks. > Gene Sokolov. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message