Chuck's Blog

Interesting little tidbit I found on the net last night while looking for what carriers the enV2 is compatible with. Simply dial the following while the phone is flipped open and hit send:

##lgservicemenu

And when the next dialog pops up, just enter zero’s. Once you do this a menu will pop up. With this menu you can perform phone self tests, monkey with some special settings, etc. Be warned though that you could mess up your phone if you’re not careful.

Ever since I started running Linux systems I became significantly annoyed with these stupid –MARK– messages in my log files. I mean, there’s no point of it, it just fills up disk space that costs me money, as well as creating more I/O activity.

So, when you get mesages like this in your /var/log/messages file:

Feb 22 14:54:21 mx2 -- MARK --
Feb 22 15:14:21 mx2 -- MARK --
Feb 22 15:34:21 mx2 -- MARK --
Feb 22 15:54:21 mx2 -- MARK --
Feb 22 16:14:21 mx2 -- MARK --
Feb 22 16:34:21 mx2 -- MARK --
Feb 22 16:54:21 mx2 -- MARK --
Feb 22 17:14:21 mx2 -- MARK --
Feb 22 17:34:21 mx2 -- MARK --

The way to stop it is to adjust the following parameter in the file /etc/default/syslogd

SYSLOGD=""

to

SYSLOGD="-m 0"

And voila, no more –MARK– messages.