[lug] Wanted: scripting help with UNIX by the hour

Joseph McDonald joem at uu.net
Thu Apr 24 14:19:38 MDT 2003


On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:27:39PM -0600, George Sexton wrote:
> Well, you must know the name of the file that's being retrieved, or the name
> of the host so I would start with something like:
> 
> find / -type f -exec grep -Hie "string" "{}" \;

Well since it's most likely scheduled in cron you could just look
through the crontab files in /var/*/cron/ and if nothing shows up
run the above command.

	--joey



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