49.1 Messages File
Every 2o minutes the syslogd daemon writes a message to
/var/log/messages simply to note that the machine is still
up:
The frequency is controlled by the -m option of the
syslogd and can be set to, for example, every 60 minutes
rather than the default 20 minutes, with the following setting in
/etc/init.d/sysklogd:
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