Searching The Entire System

carlosinfl · 10-14-2007, 09:34 AM

I believe an entry was made on my email server however I have no clue where. It is an IP address 160.142* entry made in a config file so I was wondering if I can search the entire system (I know this will take a while) for the 160.142* entry? I did an updatedb on the RHEL4 ES system however I need to find and change this entry made however I can't seem to recall its location and have spent over one hour already looking.

Anyone have cmd line suggestions?

AlucardZero · 10-14-2007, 10:53 AM

Code:

grep -r 160.142 /

bigrigdriver · 10-14-2007, 11:18 AM

find / -type f | grep '160.142'

In this command, find starts from the root of the filesystem, searching through directories for regular files (-type f). When it finds one, in calls grep to look into the file for the regular expression 160.142.

And yes, find does take a while because if's a file-by-file search.

trickykid · 10-14-2007, 07:17 PM

This could painstakingly take a long time searching the entire system. I'd suggest searcing in /etc first, since that would probably be the most logical place a config file would be edited that included any type of IP Address.

matthewg42 · 10-14-2007, 09:10 PM

What do you mean by entry? A file name?