If you want to search the *entire* system for files containing oracle, try this:
Code:
find / -type f -exec grep -l "oracle" {} \; 2>/dev/null 1>/tmp/my_search &
That will run in the background. It's best to do this as root, and even better to do it from maintenance mode (no users on, since it'll slow everyone down), and you may also have to stop jobs like "cron"... I had a problem once doing a similar search, and grep got stuck in a FIFO created by cron...
