the command "tail" gives you the last 10 lines on any text file (or any other file for that matter). When -f is added to the end of the command it gives you the last 10 lines, and "streams" the file until you press ctrl-z. It comes in handy when you are trying to troubleshoot.
Are you using a GIU, like Gnome or KDE? andy york wrote: >> Message: 10 >> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:05:37 -0700 >> From: "Derek Piazza" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: home/$user directory files >> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using >> Fedora." <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> >> >> When I am having system issues, what I do is reproduce the error but at the same time tail -f >> the >> system log file "messages" in a different window. Normally that will give you an >> error. >> >> If not, we will go from there :) >> >> andy york wrote: >>> I cannot >> see contents of home/user search hangs... any ideas on how >>> to fix? Can however go to >> subdirectories using Places/Bookmarks. >>> Search doesn't work either. >>> >>> >> -- >>> andy york >>> >>> fedorageeks.com > > Not sure what you mean "tail -f" . I'm thinking it's a gvfs problem > maybe gconf or gconf-2 . It's over my head. Creating a new user > results in same problem. Hate to reinstall because of that only. Am > running Fedora 11 x64, all updates good. > Thanks. > > ay > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > >
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