I tried "find" ... it brings back lists of hundreds if not thousands of 
matches. Just about all end with "permission denied".

I wasn't prompted for a password.

* JB *

Anthony Hixon, Jr. wrote:
> Go to a terminal and type:
>  
> find / -name "my.*" -print
>  
> You may have to sudo the command to see in som directories:
>  
> sudo find / -name "my.*" -print
>  
> It will you ask you for your password. Put it in and it should output 
> every file you have that starts with "my." That should get you going. :)
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:38 PM, J.B. Mentzer <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>     I just searched for /etc using Spotlight, a search feature in the Mac
>     GUI. I found several matches ... none contained a MySQL directory or a
>     my.cnf file. Is it invisible to the GUI?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     * JB *
>



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