From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 10 5:35:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.aktrad.ru (ns1.aktrad.ru [195.218.140.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F371414C92 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 05:35:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hook@aktrad.ru) Received: from sloth (sloth.aktrad.ru [195.218.140.13]) by ns1.aktrad.ru (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA00340; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:32:07 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from hook@aktrad.ru) Message-ID: <003801bee32c$6048c300$0d8cdac3@aktrad.ru> From: "Gene Sokolov" To: Cc: References: Subject: Re: Message "--MARK--" on the console. Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:32:14 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 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. It does not appear every 20 minutes. It appears once in a month or so. Here is the line from my /etc/syslog.conf: *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console Seems to me no --MARK-- should appear on the console. Gene Sokolov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message