By default, the syslog daemon will place –MARK– messages in your /var/log/messages log file every twenty minutes. This can get annoying and eventually lead to a waste of space. Heres a quick tip on how to stop syslog from putting –MARK– in the messages log.

  1. Edit the syslogd file. (In Ubuntu, this file is located in /etc/default/syslogd – on some other distributions, you’ll want to edit whatever file starts up the syslog daemon.)
  2. Locate the following line that starts with:

    SYSLOGD=”"

  3. Modify this line to read:

    SYSLOGD=”-m 0″

  4. Restart syslog:

    /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart

Cheers!

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