On Tue, 28 May 2002, Bob Miller wrote:

> 
> The actual name is /var/log/XFree86.0.log .  With a capital XF.  If
> it's not in /var/log, use locate to find it.
> 
>       locate -i XFree86.0.log
> 
> If you don't leave your machine up all night, you don't have a
> locate.db, and locate won't work.  

You can also run the updatedb script to bring locate up to date
if you are running it for the first time it will take a while,
also different systems use different policies regarding locate
(debian updates nightly, OpenBSD once a week)
And yes it does need to run as root.

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