On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas at gmx.net> wrote: > 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="" You must mean that you changed the default [SYSLOGD_OPTIONS="-m 0"] in "/etc/sysconfig/syslog" to ["SYSLOGD_OPTIONS=""].