Find every instance of hostname

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Aug 26 14:02:04 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 07:48 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I have a small problem on my laptop which springs from the sender of an email 
> being set as logwatch.localhost.localdomain.  I have so far been unable to 
> find which config file needs editing to get the correct hostname, so I'd like 
> to be able to search this box, where everything is fine, for config files 
> that contain the box's hostname.  I could then check the list against the ones 
> on the laptop.
> 
> It should be simple enough to do using find and grep, but I can't get a 
> command that gives me the output I need.  How can I do it?
> 
> Anne
> 
try gnome-search-tool , even if you have to yum install it. KDE has one
also whose name escapes me.
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