Re: User name in email address

[csj <csj@mindgate.net>]

On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 12:45:36 +0000
Glyn  Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> wrote:

>  Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:
> 
>  >
>  > /etc/passwd.  I don't see why this is a problem, since you can change it
>  > in most mail readers.
> 
>  No problem, just that
> 
>  a. I couldn't for the life of me remember where it is set.
> 
>  b. I don't like it when the system does things I can't track down
>     somehow. 

I ran into a similar problem some whiles back. Since Debian is fairly
well-organized I guessed the solution could be found by a simple:

grep -rl PeskySetting /etc/*"

If that failed I would have done the same for ~me. That's one of the
joys of text-based configuration.