Find every instance of hostname
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Aug 26 19:33:41 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 14:01, Anne Wilson wrote:
> >
> > This will find all ext3 files on your system and search them
> > for your hostname and print out the file names that contain it.
> >
> > As root:
> >
> > # find / -type f -fstype ext3 -exec fgrep -l "hostname" {} \;
> >
> > It will take some time.
> >
> Time, I don't mind. I suspect, though, that the 12,000 or so emails would
> also be included.
Anything that affects your system startup or configuration
should be found under /etc. Make a pass there first.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
> > You can play various games with find's commandline args to exclude
> > certain directories, do conditional searches, limit the search to a
> > particular filesystem, &c.
> >
> > Worth spending the time studying its man page. One of the most useful
> > commands in unix-dom.
> >
> I've only ever used it in a simple form. Maybe I should spend more time on
> the man page, thanks.
>
> > Don't use your fully qualified hostname unless your system name is
> > some really common or short name. Sometimes it appears in system
> > files unqualified.
> >
> The hostname is both common and short. so it probably has to be the FQDN. I
> take your point, though, about the possibility of missing a short-name entry
> somewhere.
>
> The really big problem, of course, is the difficulty in trying to prove
> something does NOT exist. All I can do is try to find likely files on this
> working setup in the hope that I can match them to ones on the offending one.
>
> Anne
>
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