syslog - kernel message interpretation

[ifloydian]

I have the syslog daemon running on my N5200Pro and I am sending the messages to a remote syslog log server.

Every 20 minutes I get the following syslog message.


Source: N5200PRO
Facility: Kernel
Severity: Info
Message: -- MARK --<\0x0A>

Any ideas what this message is? My belief is that it is a message indicating a kernel heartbeat.

Thanks,
ifloydian

[fajo]

its just a syslog "marking" indicating that the syslog daemon is up and running. Ths can be switched off by passing "-m 0" to the syslog daemon.

/Falk

[ifloydian]

Thanks Falk - But, I have enabled the syslog service via the following url. http: //YOURN5200//adm/getform.html?name=syslog

Is there a place that I can start the syslog daemon and pass these parameters automatically, like in a linux config file ?

Thanks,
ifloydian

[ifloydian]

Anyone?

My syslog is getting filled with these every 20 minutes and I want to stop logging them.

ifloydian

[ifloydian]

"This can be switched off by passing "-m 0" to the syslog daemon."

Can anyone, please, give me a bone as to were I can pass this "-m 0" parameter to the syslog daemon.

The webgui only has the ability to turn on and off the syslog and what IP to point messages to.

I have logged into sys shell and looked everywhere but can't find a thing that pertains to the syslog daemon.

-ifloydian

[peterfu]

The startup script is located at /img/bin/rc/rc.syslogd.
Unfortunatly the files are read only.

What You can do is:
- install the META module
- copy the rc.syslogd script to the startup section of the module
- modify it, so it waits for the running syslog daemeon and then restarts it with the new parameter

br
Peter

[ifloydian]

Whooo, not my cup of tea. Instead I will just run it from root after every reboot (as I dont have to reboot often, except for firmware updates). Or maybe I setup a script to SSH in and do it *automagically*.

For anyone in Busybox/Linux/N5200 hell, here's what I run from root.
(BTW, I had to install the SYSUSER and SSHD modules first so I could SSH into the box)
------root commands------
killall klogd
killall syslogd
sleep 1
/opt/bin/syslogd -m 0 -f /<raid name>/sys/N5200_syslog.conf
/opt/bin/klogd -c 4
echo "Syslogd work now"
/img/bin/logevent/event 998 info syslog event_start
-------end commands----------
Where <raid name> is replaced by your "raid name".
Usually RAID0 or RAID or RAID5, may be something else in your case.

I hope this helps someone in the future.

Peterfu, thank you sooo very much for your valuable input, without your kindness I would be stuck with that stupid 20 min interval. ;D

-ifloydian