Hi They are generated by syslogd, after some period of inactivity. I think the man page gives an option to disable it if you want HTH Sridhar On Monday 01 July 2002 05:17 am, krishnan charumathi wrote: > messages. But, with that I also see messgaes that just say "--MARK--" -- Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing -- Murphy's Laws on Work -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/