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SubjectRe: What is the --MARK-- ?
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Arvind Sankar wrote:

> > Take a look at the syslogd man-page. You can specify the time between the
> > marks with the -m option.
>
> what is the purpose behind the --MARK--?

If an idle machine dies in the middle of the night without leaving any
other logs, it makes it possible to track down the time of death to
within 1/2 hr and possibly to check the logs of other machines around that
time..

Matthew.


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