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On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 20:11:54 -0500 |
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Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 17:08 -0500, David Relson wrote: |
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> > From /var/log/messages: |
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> > Jan 16 01:35:27 osage -- MARK -- |
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> > Jan 16 01:55:37 osage -- MARK -- |
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> > Jan 16 02:15:44 osage -- MARK -- |
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> > Jan 16 02:35:52 osage -- MARK -- |
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> > Jan 16 02:55:58 osage -- MARK -- |
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> > Anybody know what a "--- MARK ---" message mean?? |
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> It's just your syslog popping in occasionally and saying "Hey, I'm |
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> still alive!" Notice that it occurs (almost) exactly every 20 |
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> minutes. |
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Kind of like syslog saying "nobody told me to log anything, so I'll log |
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something to show I (at the least) am still OK. |
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> So you probably need to look elsewhere to diagnose your problem. |
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I suspect some sort of interaction between the 2 known/suspected heavy |
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users -- VirtualBox and BackupPC. |
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Guess it's time for a monitor to snapshot system status every 5 minutes |
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so that if/when the problem occurs again, there's some info to look at. |
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