Re: flexfax: Reducing Check of Modem !

[Faser@t-online.de (Faser)]

Thanks alot !

Yes you are right. I'm silly thinking that this message
had been produced by hylafax. Till now I used mgetty and sendfax and mgetty
produced a similar Log in message.

Thanks for your help

Faser



----- Original Message -----
From: Bodo Bock <B.Bock@tu-bs.de>
To: Faser <Faser@t-online.de>
Cc: <flexfax@sgi.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 11:37 PM
Subject: flexfax: Reducing Check of Modem !


> >>>>> "F" == Faser  <Faser@t-online.de> writes:
>  F>
>  F> Hi All!
>  F> I have the following problem. I'm running Hylafax on a notebook as
server
>  F> using the engery saving options of the notebook. But because Hylafax
is
>  F> checking the modem every twenty minutes and writing the following
>  F> information into "var/log/messages" the hardisk is spinning up every
twenty
>  F> minutes:
>  F>
>  F> Messages in "var/log/messages"
>  F> Jan 27 04:46:28 Fax -- MARK --
>  F> Jan 27 05:06:28 Fax -- MARK --
>  F> Jan 27 05:26:28 Fax -- MARK --
>  F> Jan 27 05:46:28 Fax -- MARK --
>  F> Jan 27 06:06:28 Fax -- MARK --
>  F> Jan 27 06:26:28 Fax -- MARK --
>  F> Jan 27 06:46:29 Fax -- MARK --
>  F> Jan 27 07:06:29 Fax -- MARK --
>  F> Jan 27 07:26:29 Fax -- MARK --
>  F> Jan 27 07:46:29 Fax -- MARK --
>  F> Jan 27 08:06:29 Fax -- MARK --
>  F> Jan 27 08:26:29 Fax -- MARK --
>  F> Jan 27 08:46:29 Fax -- MARK --
>  F> Jan 27 09:06:29 Fax -- MARK --
>  F>
>  F> Is there a possibility to suppress this message or only doing this
test
>  F> every three hours.
>
> This is a message from syslogd not hylafax.
> >From man syslogd:
>
>        -m interval
>               The  syslogd  logs  a mark timestamp regularly. The
>               default interval between two -- MARK -- lines is 20
>               minutes. This can be changed with this option.
>
>
>
> Bodo
>
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