Find every instance of hostname

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Aug 26 19:33:41 UTC 2006


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 at gmail.com



> > 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
> 
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