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? ---- 1 - hostname... $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=lin-workstation.azapple.com GATEWAY=192.168.2.254 $ cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.2.10 lin-workstation.azapple.com lin-workstation 2 - grep # grep -r localhost.localdomain /* if root... if user, then to filter out the 'Permission denied' $ grep -r localhost.localdomain /etc/* > /tmp/test.txt will display standard error on screen but the stuff you want will go into the file you created I'm sure that others more skilled in bash can give you other alternatives but this will work. Craig
