Looking for files in the article is completely broken. To look for a file named syslog.conf, you need to say

    find -name syslog.conf

otherwise find will not look for that filename in all subdirectories.

So the shown

    find /etc/*.conf

is only doing the equivalent of

    ls /etc/*.conf

unless there is a directory the name of which ends in ".conf", in which case all its contents will be listed recursively. The required find command is:

    find /etc -name \*.conf

And what "find / syslog.conf" is doing is to list all files and directories in /, going down subdirectories recursively, and list syslog.conf in the current directory. What should really be used is:

    find / -name syslog.conf

which returns something like:

    /etc/syslog.conf