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@xxxxxxxxx > > 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 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list