Find every instance of hostname

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

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
> 
chances are, this is not going to help you solve your problem. It
sounds like your mail program is using the default hostname assigned
to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts. I do not know if you are using Sendmail,
Postfix, or something else, so I can not tell you the config file to
change. But chances are, you will not find localhost.localnet in
that file.

Mikkel
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