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Re: --MARK--

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 09:09:33AM +0200, Kristian Peters wrote:
> "krishnan charumathi" <coolcharu@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > When I looked into my /var/log/messages file I see many kernel log messages. 
> > But, with that I also see messgaes that just say "--MARK--" (quotes are for 
> > clarification and not part of the message). What does this mean??where does 
> > this come from?? Could someone explain this??
> Add "-m 0" to your syslog init-script. The --MARK-- will vanish then.

However they seem guite useful to me. You can see the rough time that
passed since some message at first glance.

Unfortunately I can't see how to enable them for specific logs only (eg
having them on /dev/tty12 and not in log files).

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