Odd log entry

[crokett]

This log entry is in my /var/log/messages. It repeats every 20 minutes. Google does not have anything on this. Any ideas on what it means? I checked my crontab, nothing is scheduled. I am running Ubuntu Linux if that makes a difference

Sep 30 19:55:32 Hawking -- MARK --
Sep 30 20:15:33 Hawking -- MARK --
Sep 30 20:35:33 Hawking -- MARK --
Sep 30 20:55:33 Hawking -- MARK --
Sep 30 21:15:33 Hawking -- MARK --
Sep 30 21:35:33 Hawking -- MARK --
Sep 30 21:55:34 Hawking -- MARK --
Sep 30 22:15:34 Hawking -- MARK --
Sep 30 22:35:34 Hawking -- MARK --
Sep 30 22:55:34 Hawking -- MARK --
Sep 30 23:15:35 Hawking -- MARK --

[cybertron]

I wouldn't worry about it. Apparently it's a syslog option to write that out at intervals. Not sure what the purpose is, but you can probably shut it off in syslog.conf.

[HughA]

Hello Crockett,

That is a just an entry to let you know that syslog is running, and also, I believe, to provide a point of reference for other syslog entries. It is quite normal, and its presence (or absence) is configurable (see the '-m' option in the man page for syslogd).

Regards,
Hugh

[crokett]

Ok. thanks fellas. Wondering what it was - I know I didn't configure it and I don't like seeing things I didn't configure in my log files. :) I will check out the .conf file for a way to shut it off or modify the message.