Re: [TCLUG:9340] Weirdness

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

I believe that is someing defined on RedHat (and derived) dists in a
cronjob.  Look around for it in them.

All it does is show you that the box was still alive then.

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Christopher Palmer wrote:

> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:53:51 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Christopher Palmer <reid@pconline.com>
> Reply-To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: [TCLUG:9340] Weirdness
> 
> Hello, I have a weird question.
> 
> At work our two Mandrake 6.0 servers occasionally become unresponsive over
> the network. We had apmd running, so we killed it thinking that perhaps
> the outage was caused by the systems going into power-save mode or such.
> 
> Nope. Still getting the random, short outages.
> 
> /var/log/messages does have this to say, though:
> 
> ===
> Oct 19 02:36:48 george snmpd: Connection from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> Oct 19 03:01:51 george -- MARK --
> Oct 19 03:21:51 george -- MARK --
> Oct 19 03:41:51 george -- MARK --
> Oct 19 04:01:51 george -- MARK --
> ===
> 
> Does anyone know what '-- MARK --' means?
> 
> 
> -- Chris
> 
>   Christopher Reid Palmer : www.innerfireworks.com
> 
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