On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 9:16 PM Mark Constable <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 08/10/18 10:57, Little Girl wrote: > >> Where else can I look for the remnnts of the "5" configuration which > >> are being applied at boot and preventing parts of the file-based > >> configuration from working? I even decompressed a copy of > >> initrd.img... and found nothing. > > [...] > > If nothing else, hopefully this message will draw attention to your > > original message and maybe someone with a more appropriate solution > > will join in. > > I find this alias useful to search or query various config settings... > > alias q='find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep ' > > then "cd /etc" (most often) and ie; "q 12.34.56.78" the IP being set
you can do that a lot easier with just: $ grep -r 12.34.56.78 /etc > from the previous 5 machine on the 2 machine. Change the IP for any > unique info related to the other machine and you may locate the > remnants of old config files. /var/lib/ is another place to look. > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
