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. http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
