On Saturday 26 August 2006 11:56, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 07:48am on Saturday, August 26, 2006 (UK time), Anne Wilson scrawled: > > I have a small problem on my laptop which springs from the sender of an > > email being set as logwatch.localhost.localdomain. > > Do you mean the "from" address os logwatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx? In > which case I am not sure what you want to do is the way to solve it. > > > 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? > > grep -r /* foo > > should do it, where foo is the string you are searching for. Run it as > root or you won't have access to all files. You will still get some > error messages from some of the things in /dev, but it should find what > you are looking for. > > Unfortunately, those error messages seem to be all I'm getting. I directed the output to a file, but after 20 minutes the file is still empty and the root console shows only the error messages. Anne
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