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 -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
