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01-13-2010

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How to find the IP address of a computer that I am connected to?

Hi all,
One of my computers (an iMac) was recently stolen, but I have been able to connect to it over the internet through Apple's 'back to my mac' feature. In order for the police to find these people they need to know the IP address of the stolen computer.

I suspect that I will have find the IP address through the terminal, so I was wondering how a UNIX user would go about finding the IP address of a computer that they have mounted as a disk image? (sorry if I am using Mac terminology here rather than Unix terminology).
Are there any log files that would list the IP addresses that have been accessed recently? (the computer has since disappeared, so this would be the preferred method)
If not, how would I find out what the IP address is when I am next able to access it?
I understand that the Mac OSX may do things differently to pure UNIX, but hopefully there are enough similarities to allow me to do what I need. My knowledge of how UNIX/the terminal works is undoubtedly very poor compared to most of the users of this forum (i.e. I only use UNIX for some very basic work on the supercomputers at university), so please do really spell it out for me!

Thanks in advance!

RJFoulston

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spell(1)						      General Commands Manual							  spell(1)

NAME

       spell, spellin, spellout - Finds spelling errors

SYNOPSIS

       spell [-b] [-i  | -l] [-v  | -x] [-d hash_list] [-s hash_stop] [-h history_list] [+word_list] [file...]

       spellin [list] [number]

       spellout [-d] list

       The spell command reads words in file and compares them to those in a spelling list.  Default files contain English words only, but you can
       supply your own list of words in other languages.

STANDARDS

       Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:

       spell:  XCU5.0

       Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.

OPTIONS

       [Tru64 UNIX]  The following options are for the spell command only.  Checks for	correct  British  spelling.   Besides  preferring  centre,
       colour,	programme, speciality, travelled, and so on, this option causes spell to insist upon the use of the infix -ise in words like stan-
       dardise.  [Tru64 UNIX]  Specifies hash_list as the alternate spelling list. The default is /usr/lbin/spell/hlist[ab].  [Tru64 UNIX]  Speci-
       fies  history_list  as the alternate history list that is used to accumulate all output.  The default is /usr/lbin/spell/spellhist.  [Tru64
       UNIX]  Suppresses processing of included files through the and troff macros.  If the -i and -l options are both specified, the last one	of
       the two options entered on the command line takes effect.  [Tru64 UNIX]	Follows the chain of all included files (.so and

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