flexfax: Reducing Check of Modem !

[Bodo Bock <B.Bock@tu-bs.de>]

>>>>> "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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