Re: Announcing version 1.3-27 or system and kernel log daemon

Ian Wehrman (ian@wehrman.com)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:23:23 -0400

using kernel 2.1.125, and starting with sysklogd-1.3-27, i am getting a
bunch of these messages in my logs, exactly twenty minutes apart:

[root@r77h19 sysklogd-1.3-27]# grep 'MARK' /var/log/messages
Oct 14 15:58:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 16:18:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 16:38:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 16:58:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 17:18:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 17:38:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 17:58:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 18:18:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 18:38:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 18:58:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 19:18:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 19:38:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 19:58:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 20:38:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 20:58:16 r77h19 -- MARK --
Oct 14 21:18:16 r77h19 -- MARK --

is this normal?
thanks,
ian wehrman

Martin Schulze wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Since some of you on linux-kernel have reported problems with current
> versions of sysklogd I'm sending a small announcement to this list.
>
> I have finished a new subrelease of the sysklogd package which
> contains the klogd program. It fixes a pile of problems. Some
> of them are:
>
> . syslogd doesn't dump core if the kernel reports a `%' sign
> . syslogd is 8bit clean now
> . klogd will decode symbols even for late 2.1 kernels and
> System.map files
> . syslogd supports more than one unix domain socket in order
> to support chroot()'ed daemons that do syslog.
>
> These are also present in the -26 subrelease
>
> . klogd will try to read /boot/System.map-`uname -r` before
> it tries /boot/System.map.
>
> The exact list of changes is documented in debian/changelog within
> the source tarball.
>
> I have just uploaded it to sunsite. Until it is sorted in there
> you can grab it from
>
> ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/sysklogd/sysklogd-1.3-27.tar.gz
>
> Regards,
>
> Joey
>
> --
> Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired
> just after one could have used it.
>
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ian@wehrman.com
georgia institute of technology


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