Lost files

[Ashley Benton]

Yes it was clear, and I would have guess that son was username, and no he
doesn't have root access except with sudo. So I can just do history to see
if he did something wrong but he usually don't touch it and say 'mum it
doesn't work!' It makes it easier for me to fix if something doesn't work.
Again, thanks for the help (and yes his researches are found)
Meg

On Jan 13, 2008 2:40 PM, Jonathan Hirschman <jonathan at hirschman.net> wrote:

> Jonathan Hirschman wrote:
>
> One other thing - replace "son" below with your son's username, of
> course. Figured I should make that clear, tho.
>
> Good luck,
>
> jh
> > Ashley Benton wrote:
> >
> >> Does anybody has an idea of how I could find out if he really saved
> >> something on his computer yesterday?
> >>
> >
> > This may be useful to you:
> >
> > http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/Find/find_mini_tutorial.shtml
> >
> > find /home/son -mtime -1
> >
> > Will find anything he created or modified in the last 24 hours. He
> > doesn't have root, right? So he can only save to his home directory,
> > then. If he has root (bad idea!), then try:
> >
> > find / -mtime -1
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> > jh
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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