Re: [CFT] Grep to find users of sys_sysctl.

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Fri Oct 20 2006 - 09:44:03 EST


Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 01:05:18AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>
>> Anyone who is interested in knowing if they have an application on
>> their system that actually uses sys_sysctl please run the following grep.
>>
>> find / -type f -perm /111 -exec fgrep 'sysctl@@GLIBC' '{}' ';'
>
> This assumes the binaries and/or libraries are not stripped, and they
> usually are stripped. So, it is better to run something like:
> find / -type f -perm /111 | while read f; do readelf -Ws $f 2>/dev/null | fgrep
> -q sysctl@GLIBC && echo $f; done

Thanks the better grep helps.

Eric
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