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Hi, John.
On Monday, 16 August 2010 00:31:14 -0300, JohnS wrote:
This is my first message to the list. Some time ago I'm user of Debian GNU/Linux and recently I also started to use CentOS GNU/Linux.
Does anyone know how to enable the mark facility on CentOS? According to what I was seeing, unlike Debian GNU/Linux, which uses rsyslog, CentOS still uses the traditional syslog where the parameters to be passed to the daemon are taken from /etc/sysconfig/syslog and the default configuration
-m 1 ??? The man page isn't much help....Get your feet weat...
I thought the first referral to see would be "man syslogd":
-m interval The syslogd logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20 minutes. This can be changed with this option. Setting the interval to zero turns it off entirely.
This time I did a test again and it worked even without the need to add mark.* in /etc/syslog.conf. I presume that maybe when I tried it last week, it would have failed because I incorrectly used "-m 20" in SYSLOGD_OPTIONS in /etc/init.d/syslog rather than in /etc/syslog.conf.
I also see that timestamps are placed with the default interval of 20 minutes leaving the variable empty, ie:
SYSLOGD_OPTIONS=""
Thanks for your reply.
Regards, Daniel