Thanks all, for the quick solution:
I needed to put:
mark.none" onto the end of the line logging
things to /var/adm/messages in /etc/syslog.conf
and then stop and restart syslogd.
Thanks to:
James Coby
Frank Cusack
Arthur Darren Dunham
Sabrina Downard
Rich Snyder
Christopher M. Conway
Andrew Moffat
and others whose help is on its way...
Original question:
> We have several sparc5's, running solaris 2.5.1.
>
> In the messages file I see:
>
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> Oct 11 10:09:42 hostname Oct 11 10:03:02
> Oct 11 10:19:42 hostname Oct 11 10:13:02
> Oct 11 10:29:42 hostname Oct 11 10:23:02
> Oct 11 10:39:42 hostname Oct 11 10:33:02
> Oct 11 10:49:42 hostname Oct 11 10:43:02
> Oct 11 10:59:42 hostname Oct 11 10:53:02
> Oct 11 11:09:42 hostname Oct 11 11:03:02
> Oct 11 11:19:42 hostname Oct 11 11:13:02
> Oct 11 11:29:42 hostname Oct 11 11:23:02
> Oct 11 11:39:42 hostname Oct 11 11:33:02
> Oct 11 11:49:42 hostname Oct 11 11:43:02
> Oct 11 11:59:42 hostname Oct 11 11:53:02
> Oct 11 12:09:42 hostname Oct 11 12:03:02
> Oct 11 12:19:42 hostname Oct 11 12:13:02
> Oct 11 12:29:42 hostname Oct 11 12:23:02
> Oct 11 12:39:42 hostname Oct 11 12:33:02
> Oct 11 12:49:42 hostname Oct 11 12:43:02
>
> I checked all cron jobs on the machines, and find none
> running every 10 minutes, as it seems these messages
> appear.
>
> These are end user machines, with no patches, but I
> couldn't find a reference to "messages" in the 2.5.1
> patch report.
>
> These machines are ones with a 170 MHz processor, we have
> no similar probs with sparc5's with a 70MHz processor.
>
> Any idea what could be causing these meaningless
> messages?
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