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36.Dd October 15, 2001
37.Dt HIER 7
38.Os
39.Sh NAME
40.Nm hier
41.Nd layout of filesystems
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43An outline of the filesystem hierarchy.
44.Pp
45Naming is very important.
46The
47.Ux
48System relies on filename conventions for much of its power as a system.
49The following file system layout describes generally where things are
50and what they are, with references to other man pages for more detailed
51documentation.
52.Pp
53Not all files will be in every system.
54.Pp
55.Bl -tag -width "/altroot/"
56.It Sy \&/
57root directory of the system
58.It Sy /COPYRIGHT
59system copyright notice, most often put on
60.Tn CD-ROM
61distributions.
62.It Sy "/[a-z]"
63user filesystems
64.It Sy /altroot/
65alternate root filesystem, in case of disaster
66.It Sy /amd/
67home directories mount point; see
68.Xr amd 8
69.It Sy /bin/
70utilities used in both single and multi-user environments
71.It Sy /boot*
72second-stage boot loader(s) for some platforms; see
73.Xr installboot 8
74.It Sy /dev/
75block, character and other special device files
76.Pp
77.Bl -tag -width "MAKEDEV" -compact
78.It Sy MAKEDEV
79script for creating device files;
80see
81.Xr makedev 8
82.It Sy console
83the computer's console device
84.It Sy fd/
85file descriptor files;
86see
87.Xr fd 4
88.It Sy drum
89system swap space; see
90.Xr drum 4
91.It Sy klog
92kernel logging device; see
93.Xr syslog 3
94.It Sy kmem
95kernel virtual memory device; see
96.Xr mem 4
97.It Sy log
98.Ux
99domain datagram log socket; see
100.Xr syslogd 8
101.It Sy mem
102kernel physical memory device; see
103.Xr mem 4
104.It Sy stderr
105.It Sy stdin
106.It Sy stdout
107file descriptor files;
108see
109.Xr fd 4
110.It Sy null
111the null device; see
112.Xr null 4
113.It Sy tty
114process' controlling terminal device; see
115.Xr tty 4
116.It Sy zero
117the zero device; see
118.Xr zero 4
119.El
120.It Sy /dump/
121online
122.Xr dump 8
123repository
124.It Sy /etc/
125system configuration files and scripts
126.Pp
127.Bl -tag -width "master.passwd" -compact
128.It Sy amd*
129configuration files for
130.Xr amd 8
131.It Sy changelist
132files backed up by the security script
133.It Sy crontab
134schedule used by the
135.Xr cron 8
136daemon
137.It Sy csh.cshrc
138.It Sy csh.login
139.It Sy csh.logout
140system-wide scripts for
141.Xr csh 1
142.It Sy daily
143script run each day by
144.Xr cron 8
145.It Sy daily.conf
146configuration file for
147.Sy daily ;
148see
149.Xr daily.conf 5
150.It Sy defaults/
151default configuration files read by various
152.Pa /etc/*.conf
153files
154.It Sy disktab
155disk description file, see
156.Xr disktab 5
157.It Sy dm.conf
158dungeon master configuration; see
159.Xr dm.conf 5
160.It Sy dumpdates
161dump history; see
162.Xr dump 8
163.It Sy exports
164filesystem export information; see
165.Xr mountd 8
166.It Sy fstab
167filesystem information; see
168.Xr fstab 5
169and
170.Xr mount 8
171.It Sy ftpusers
172users denied
173.Xr ftp 1
174access; see
175.Xr ftpd 8
176.It Sy ftpwelcome
177.Xr ftp 1
178initial message; see
179.Xr ftpd 8
180.It Sy gettytab
181terminal configuration database; see
182.Xr gettytab 5
183.It Sy group
184group permissions file; see
185.Xr group 5
186.It Sy hosts
187host name database backup for
188.Xr named 8 ;
189see
190.Xr hosts 5
191.It Sy hosts.equiv
192trusted machines with equivalent user ID's
193.It Sy hosts.lpd
194trusted machines with printing privileges
195.It Sy inetd.conf
196Internet server configuration file; see
197.Xr inetd 8
198.It Sy kerberosIV/
199configuration files for the kerberos version IV;
200see
201.Xr kerberos 8
202.It Sy localtime
203local timezone information;
204see
205.Xr ctime 3
206.It Sy mail/
207configuration files for
208.Xr sendmail 8
209.Pp
210.Bl -tag -width "sendmail.*" -compact
211.It Sy aliases*
212name alias files
213.It Sy sendmail.*
214.Xr sendmail 8
215configuration information
216.El
217.It Sy mail.rc
218system-wide initialization script for
219.Xr mail 1
220.It Sy man.conf
221configuration file for
222.Xr man 1 ;
223see
224.Xr man.conf 5
225.It Sy master.passwd
226.It Sy passwd
227.It Sy pwd.db
228.It Sy spwd.db
229password files and their databases; see
230.Xr pwd_mkdb 8
231.It Sy mk.conf
232optional file containing
233.Xr make 1
234variables, read by pkgsrc and the system sources.
235.It Sy monthly
236script run each month by
237.Xr cron 8
238.It Sy monthly.conf
239configuration file for
240.Sy monthly ;
241see
242.Xr monthly.conf 5
243.It Sy motd
244system message of the day
245.It Sy mtree/
246mtree configuration files;
247see
248.Xr mtree 8
249.It Sy named.*
250.It Sy namedb/
251named configuration files and databases;
252see
253.Xr named 8
254.It Sy netgroup
255network groups; see
256.Xr netgroup 5
257.It Sy netstart
258network startup script
259.It Sy networks
260network name data base; see
261.Xr networks 5
262.It Sy phones
263remote host phone number data base; see
264.Xr phones 5
265.It Sy printcap
266system printer configuration; see
267.Xr printcap 5
268.It Sy protocols
269protocol name database; see
270.Xr protocols 5
271.It Sy rc
272.It Sy rc.shutdown
273.It Sy rc.local
274.It Sy rc.d/
275system startup and shutdown scripts; see
276.Xr rc 8
277and
278.Xr rc.d 8
279.It Sy rc.conf
280configuration file for system startup and shutdown scripts; see
281.Xr rc.conf 5
282.It Sy remote
283remote host description file; see
284.Xr remote 5
285.It Sy security
286daily (in)security script run by
287.Xr cron 8
288.It Sy security.conf
289configuration file for
290.Sy security ;
291see
292.Xr security.conf 5
293.It Sy services
294service name data base; see
295.Xr services 5
296.It Sy shells
297list of permitted shells; see
298.Xr shells 5
299.It Sy sliphome/
300.Tn SLIP
301login/logout scripts; see
302.Xr sliplogin 8
303.It Sy syslog.conf
304.Xr syslogd 8
305configuration file; see
306.Xr syslog.conf 5
307.It Sy termcap
308terminal type database; see
309.Xr termcap 3
310.It Sy ttys
311terminal initialization information; see
312.Xr ttys 5
313.It Sy uucp/
314UUCP configuration files; see
315.Xr uucp 1
316and
317.Xr uucico 8 .
318.It Sy weekly
319script run each week by
320.Xr cron 8
321.It Sy weekly.conf
322configuration file for
323.Sy weekly ;
324see
325.Xr weekly.conf 5
326.El
327.It Sy /home/
328mount point for the automounter; see
329.Xr amd 8
330.It Sy /mnt/
331empty directory commonly used by
332system administrators as a temporary mount point
333.It Sy /netbsd
334pure kernel executable (the operating system loaded into memory
335at boot time).
336.It Sy /root/
337home directory for the super-user
338.Pp
339.Bl -tag -width ".profile" -compact
340.It Sy \&.rhosts
341super-user id mapping between machines
342.It Sy \&.cshrc
343super-user start-up file
344.It Sy \&.login
345super-user start-up file
346.It Sy \&.profile
347super-user start-up file
348.El
349.ne 1i
350.It Sy /sbin/
351system programs and administration utilities
352used in both single-user and multi-user environments
353.It Sy /stand/
354programs used in a standalone environment
355.It Sy /sys
356symbolic link to the operating system source
357.It Sy /tmp/
358temporary files, usually a
359.Xr mfs 8
360memory-based filesystem (the contents
361of /tmp are usually NOT preserved across a system reboot)
362.It Sy /usr/
363contains the majority of the system utilities and files
364.Pp
365.Bl -tag -width "libdata/" -compact
366.It Sy X11R6/
367X11 files
368.Pp
369.Bl -tag -width "include/" -compact
370.It Sy bin/
371X11 binaries
372.It Sy include/
373X11 include files
374.It Sy lib/
375X11 libraries
376.El
377.Pp
378.It Sy bin/
379common utilities, programming tools, and applications
380.It Sy games/
381the important stuff
382.It Sy include/
383standard C include files
384.Pp
385.Bl -tag -width "kerberosIV/" -compact
386.It Sy arpa/
387include files for Internet service protocols
388.It Sy g++/
389include files for the C++ compiler
390.It Sy kerberosIV/
391include files for kerberos authentication package;
392see
393.Xr kerberos 8
394.It Sy machine/
395machine specific include files
396.It Sy net/
397.It Sy netatalk/
398C include files for AppleTalk protocols
399miscellaneous network include files;
400see
401.Xr atalk 4
402.It Sy netccitt/
403CCITT networking include files
404.It Sy netinet/
405include files for Internet standard protocols; see
406.Xr inet 4
407.It Sy netinet6/
408include files for Internet protocol version 6; see
409.Xr inet6 4
410.It Sy netiso/
411include files for ISO standard protocols; see
412.Xr iso 4
413.It Sy netkey/
414include files for secret key management, used for security protocols; see
415.Xr ipsec 4
416.It Sy natm/
417C include files for native mode ATM
418.It Sy netns/
419C include files for XNS standard protocols; see
420.Xr ns 4
421.It Sy nfs/
422C include files for NFS (Network File System)
423.It Sy protocols/
424C include files for Berkeley service protocols
425.It Sy sys/
426system C include files (kernel data structures)
427.It Sy ufs/
428C include files for UFS (The U-word File System)
429.El
430.Pp
431.It Sy lib/
432archive, profiled, position independant archive, and shared libraries
433.It Sy libdata/
434miscellaneous utility data files
435.It Sy libexec/
436system daemons \*[Am] system utilities (executed by other programs)
437.Pp
438.Bl -tag -width "uucp/" -compact
439.It Sy uucp/
440UUCP binaries and scripts (historically placed; to be moved)
441.El
442.Pp
443.It Sy local/
444local executables, libraries, etc.
445.Pp
446.Bl -tag -width "include/" -compact
447.It Sy bin/
448local binaries
449.It Sy include/
450local include files
451.It Sy libexec/
452local daemons
453.It Sy libdata/
454local data files
455.El
456.Pp
457.It Sy mdec/
458boot blocks, etc.
459.It Sy pkg/
460packages maintained by groups other than the
461.Nx
462Project.
463.Pp
464.Bl -tag -width "include/" -compact
465.It Sy bin/
466contributed binaries
467.It Sy sbin/
468contributed system utilities
469.It Sy include/
470contributed include files
471.It Sy libexec/
472contributed daemons
473.It Sy libdata/
474contributed data files
475.El
476.Pp
477.It Sy pkgsrc/
478build descriptions ("packages") for the
479.Nx
480packages system.
481.Pp
482.Bl -tag -width "distfiles" -compact
483.It Sy distfiles
484Where unchanged source archives are fetched to/stored
485.It Sy packages
486Where compiled binary packages are stored
487.El
488.Pp
489There are also several other subdirectories which contain packages of
490a certain category, e.g. archivers, graphics, ...
491.Pp
492.It Sy obj/
493architecture-specific target tree produced by building the
494.Pa /usr/src
495tree; normally a symbolic link or mounted filesystem
496.It Sy sbin/
497system daemons and system utilities (normally executed by the super-user)
498.It Sy share/
499architecture-independent text files
500.Pp
501.Bl -tag -width "calendar/" -compact
502.It Sy calendar/
503a variety of calendar files; see
504.Xr calendar 1
505.It Sy dict/
506word lists;
507see
508.Xr look 1
509and
510.Xr spell 1
511.Pp
512.Bl -tag -width "special/" -compact
513.It Sy words
514common words
515.It Sy web2
516words of Webster's 2nd International
517.It Sy papers/
518reference databases;
519see
520.Xr refer 1
521.It Sy special/
522custom word lists;
523see
524.Xr spell 1
525.El
526.Pp
527.It Sy doc/
528miscellaneous documentation; source for most of the printed
529.Bx 4.3
530manuals (available
531from the
532.Tn USENIX
533association)
534.It Sy games/
535text files used by various games
536.It Sy lkm/
537documentation on the loadable kernel modules interface
538.It Sy man/
539formatted manual pages
540.It Sy me/
541macros for use with the
542.Xr me 7
543macro package
544.It Sy misc/
545miscellaneous system-wide text files
546.Pp
547.Bl -tag -width "termcap" -compact
548.It Sy termcap
549terminal characteristics database;
550see
551.Xr termcap 5
552.El
553.Pp
554.It Sy mk/
555include files for
556.Xr make 1
557.It Sy ms/
558macros for use with the
559.Xr ms 7
560macro package
561.It Sy skel/
562sample initialization files for new user accounts
563.It Sy tabset/
564tab description files for a variety of terminals, used in
565the termcap file;
566see
567.Xr termcap 5
568.It Sy tmac/
569text processing macros;
570see
571.Xr nroff 1
572and
573.Xr troff 1
574.It Sy zoneinfo/
575timezone configuration information;
576see
577.Xr tzfile 5
578.El
579.Pp
580.El
581.Pp
582.It Sy /usr/src/
583.Nx
584and local source files
585.Pp
586.Bl -tag -width "domestic/" -compact
587.It Sy bin/
588source for utilities/files in
589.Pa /bin
590.It Sy distrib/
591tools and data-files for making distributions
592.It Sy crypto/
593cryptographic source, which may have import or export restrictions
594.It Sy dist/
595third-party
596.Sq virgin
597source code, referenced by other parts of the source tree
598.It Sy etc/
599source (usually example files) for files in
600.Pa /etc
601.It Sy games/
602source for utilities/files in
603.Pa /usr/games
604.It Sy gnu/
605source for programs covered by the
606.Tn GNU
607license (or similar)
608.It Sy include/
609source for files in
610.Pa /usr/include
611.It Sy lib/
612source for libraries in
613.Pa /usr/lib
614.It Sy libexec/
615source for utilities/files in
616.Pa /usr/libexec
617.It Sy regress/
618various regression tests
619.It Sy sbin/
620source for utilities/files in
621.Pa /sbin
622.It Sy share/
623source for files in
624.Pa /usr/share
625.Pp
626.Bl -tag -width "doc/" -compact
627.It Sy doc/
628.Pp
629.Bl -tag -width "papers/" -compact
630.It Sy papers/
631source for various Berkeley technical papers
632.It Sy psd/
633source for Programmer's Supplementary Documents
634.It Sy smm/
635source for System Manager's Manual
636.It Sy usd/
637source for User's Supplementary Documents
638.Pp
639.El
640.El
641.It Sy sys/
642kernel source files
643.Pp
644.Bl -tag -width "gdbscripts/" -compact
645.It Sy adosfs/
646AmigaDOS file-system support; see
647.Xr mount_ados 8
648.It Sy arch/
649architecture-specific support
650.Pp
651.Bl -tag -width "playstation2/" -compact
652.It Sy acorn32/
653Acorn RiscPC/A7000/NC and compatibles
654.It Sy algor/
655Algorithmics MIPS evaluations board
656.It Sy alpha/
657Digital Equipment Corp. Alpha architecture
658.It Sy amiga/
659Amiga architecture
660.It Sy amigappc/
661PowerPC based Amiga architecture
662.It Sy arc/
663ARC specification compliant systems.
664.It Sy arm/
665ARM processor general support
666.It Sy arm26/
667ARM2 and ARM3 based systems
668.It Sy atari/
669Atari architecture
670.It Sy bebox/
671Be Inc. BeBox architecture
672.It Sy cats/
673Chalice Technology StrongARM evaluation board
674.It Sy cesfic/
675CES FIC8234 VME processor board
676.It Sy cobalt/
677Cobalt Networks MIPS Microserver architecture
678.It Sy dreamcast/
679Sega Dreamcast game console
680.It Sy evbsh3/
681SH3 based evaluation boards
682.It Sy hp300/
683Hewlett-Packard 9000/300 680x0-based workstations
684.It Sy hparm/
685StrongARM based WinCE hand-held devices
686.It Sy hpcmips/
687MIPS based WinCE hand-held devices
688.It Sy hpcsh/
689Hitachi SH3/4 based WinCE hand-held devices
690.It Sy i386/
691Intel 386/486/Pentium/etc. workstations
692.It Sy luna68k/
693Omron LUNA 68000-based workstations
694.It Sy m68k/
695680x0 processor support
696.It Sy mac68k/
697Apple Computer 680x0-based workstations
698.It Sy macppc/
699Apple Computer PowerPC-based workstations
700.It Sy mips/
701MIPS processor support
702.It Sy mipsco/
703Mips Computer Systems Inc. architecture
704.It Sy mmeye/
705Brains Inc. SH3 based mmEye multimedia server
706.It Sy mvme68k/
707VME 680x0-based cards
708.It Sy news68k/
709Sony NEWS 680x0-based workstations
710.It Sy newsmips/
711Sony NEWS MIPS-based workstations
712.It Sy next68k/
713NeXT 680x0-based workstations
714.It Sy ofppc/
715Open Firmware PowerPC workstations
716.It Sy pc532/
717pc532 architecture
718.It Sy playstation2/
719SONY PlayStation 2
720.It Sy pmax/
721MIPS-based DECstation architecture
722.It Sy powerpc/
723PowerPC processor support
724.It Sy prep/
725PowerPC Reference Platform
726.It Sy sandpoint/
727Motorola Sandpoint reference platform
728.It Sy sgimips/
729SGI MIPS architecture
730.It Sy sh3/
731SH3 processor general support
732.It Sy shark/
733StrongARM based Digital DNARD ("Shark") machines
734.It Sy sparc/
735Sun Microsystems SPARC architecture
736.It Sy sparc64/
737Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC architecture
738.It Sy sun2/
739Sun Microsystems 68010-based Sun 2 architecture
740.It Sy sun3/
741Sun Microsystems 68020/68030-based Sun 3/3x architecture
742.It Sy sun68k/
743680x0-based Sun architecture general support
744.It Sy vax/
745Digital Equipment Corp. VAX architecture
746.It Sy walnut/
747IBM 405GP PowerPC "walnut" evaluation board
748.It Sy x68k/
749Sharp X680x0 680x0-based workstations
750.It Sy x86_64/
751AMD x86-64(tm) 64-bit CPU
752.El
753.Pp
754.It Sy compat/
755kernel compatibility modules directory
756.Pp
757.Bl -tag -width "ossaudio/" -compact
758.It Sy common/
759common compatibility routines, old
760.Bx 4
761and
762.Nx
763routines.
764.It Sy freebsd/
765support for
766.Fx
767binaries; see
768.Xr compat_freebsd 8
769.It Sy hpux/
770support for 68000 HP-UX binaries
771.It Sy ibcs2/
772support for Intel Binary binaries
773.It Sy linux/
774support for Linux binaries; see
775.Xr compat_linux 8
776.It Sy m68k4k/
777support for 4Kb page 68000 binaries
778.It Sy netbsd32/
779support for
780.Nx
78132-bit binaries on 64 bit platforms with compatible CPU families
782.It Sy osf1/
783support for
784.Tn Digital
785.Ux
786.Po
787formerly
788.Tn OSF/1
789.Pc
790binaries
791.It Sy ossaudio/
792support for OSS audio
793.It Sy pecoff/
794support for
795.Tn Win32
796binaries; see
797.Xr compat_pecoff 8
798.It Sy sunos/
799support for
800.Tn SunOS 4.x
801binaries; see
802.Xr compat_sunos 8
803.It Sy svr4/
804support for System V Release 4 binaries; see
805.Xr compat_svr4 8
806.It Sy ultrix/
807support for
808.Tn Ultrix
809binaries
810.It Sy vax1k/
811support for older Vax binaries that started on a 1 KB boundary
812.El
813.Pp
814.It Sy conf/
815architecture independent configuration directory
816.It Sy crypto/
817cryptographic kernel source, which may have import or export restrictions
818.It Sy ddb/
819in kernel debugger
820.It Sy dev/
821architecture independent device support
822.It Sy filecorefs/
823support for the Acorn RISC OS filecore filesystem; see
824.Xr mount_filecore 8
825.It Sy gdbscripts/
826support for accessing kernel structures from within the debugger
827.Xr gdb 1 .
828.It Sy ipkdb/
829support for kernel debugging over the network
830.It Sy isofs/
831support for ISO filesystems
832.Pp
833.Bl -tag -width "cd9660/" -compact
834.It Sy cd9660/
835support for the ISO-9660 filesystem; see
836.Xr mount_cd9660 8
837.El
838.Pp
839.It Sy kern/
840support for the high kernel (system calls)
841.It Sy lib/
842kernel libraries
843.Pp
844.Bl -tag -width "libkern/" -compact
845.It Sy libkern/
846C library routines used in the kernel
847.It Sy libsa/
848machine independant stand alone kernel library
849.It Sy libz/
850compression library
851.El
852.Pp
853.It Sy lkm/
854loadable kernel modules
855.Pp
856.Bl -tag -width "gdbscripts/" -compact
857.It Sy compat/
858LKM support compatibility modules;  currently unsupported.
859.It Sy netinet/
860LKM support networking modules
861.Pp
862.Bl -tag -width "if_ipl/" -compact
863.It Sy if_ipl/
864LKM for IP-Filter
865.El
866.Pp
867.It Sy vfs/
868LKM support for file systems.
869.El
870.Pp
871.It Sy miscfs/
872miscellaneous file systems
873.Pp
874.Bl -tag -width "deadfs/" -compact
875.It Sy deadfs/
876kernel only dead file system
877.It Sy fdesc/
878file descriptor file system; see
879.Xr mount_fdesc 8
880.It Sy fifofs/
881POSIX FIFO support
882.It Sy genfs/
883kernel only generic file system
884.It Sy kernfs/
885kernel namespace file system; see
886.Xr mount_kernfs 8
887.It Sy nullfs/
888loop back file system; see
889.Xr mount_null 8
890.It Sy overlay/
891overlay file system; see
892.Xr mount_overlay 8
893.It Sy portal/
894portal file system; see
895.Xr mount_portal 8
896.It Sy procfs/
897process file system; see
898.Xr mount_procfs 8
899.It Sy specfs/
900kernel only special file system
901.It Sy syncfs/
902kernel trickle sync algorithm
903.It Sy umapfs/
904user and group re-mapping file system; see
905.Xr mount_umap 8
906.It Sy union/
907union file system; see
908.Xr mount_union 8
909.El
910.Pp
911.It Sy msdosfs/
912.Tn MS-DOS
913file system; see
914.Xr mount_msdos 8
915.It Sy net/
916miscellaneous networking support
917.It Sy netatalk/
918AppleTalk networking support
919.It Sy netccitt/
920CCITT networking support
921.It Sy netinet/
922IP networking support
923.It Sy netinet6/
924IPv6 networking support
925.It Sy netiso/
926ISO networking support
927.It Sy netkey/
928Key database for IPsec networking support
929.It Sy netnatm/
930ATM networking support
931.It Sy netns/
932XNS networking support
933.It Sy nfs/
934NFS support
935.It Sy ntfs/
936NTFS filesystem support
937.It Sy stand/
938kernel standalone support
939.It Sy sys/
940kernel (and system) include files
941.It Sy ufs/
942local filesystem support
943.Pp
944.Bl -tag -width "ffs/" -compact
945.It Sy ffs/
946the Berkeley Fast File System
947.It Sy lfs/
948the log-structured file system
949.It Sy mfs/
950the in-memory file system
951.It Sy ufs/
952shared
953.Ux
954file system support
955.El
956.It Sy uvm/
957UVM virtual memory system
958.El
959.It Sy usr.bin/
960source for utilities/files in
961.Pa /usr/bin
962.It Sy usr.sbin/
963source for utilities/files in
964.Pa /usr/sbin
965.El
966.It Sy /var/
967multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files
968.Pp
969.Bl -tag -width "preserve/" -compact
970.It Sy account/
971system accounting files
972.Pp
973.Bl -tag -width "acct" -compact
974.It Sy acct
975execution accounting file;
976see
977.Xr acct 5
978.El
979.Pp
980.It Sy at/
981timed command scheduling files;
982see
983.Xr at 1
984.It Sy backups/
985miscellaneous backup files, largely of files found in
986.Pa /etc
987.It Sy chroot/
988home directories of applications which are run in a
989.Xr chroot 8
990.Dq cage .
991.It Sy crash/
992system crash dumps; see
993.Xr savecore 8
994.It Sy cron/
995scheduled commands configuration files; see
996.Xr cron 8
997.It Sy db/
998miscellaneous automatically generated system-specific database files
999.It Sy games/
1000miscellaneous game status and log files
1001.It Sy heimdal/
1002Kerberos 5 KDC database; see
1003.Xr kdc 8
1004.It Sy log/
1005miscellaneous system log files
1006.Pp
1007.Bl -tag -width "monthly.out" -compact
1008.It Sy amd.*
1009.Xr amd 8
1010logs
1011.It Sy daily.out
1012output of the last run of the
1013.Pa /etc/daily
1014script
1015.It Sy ftp.*
1016.Xr ftp 1
1017logs
1018.It Sy kerberos.*
1019.Xr kerberos 8
1020logs
1021.It Sy lastlog
1022system last time logged in log; see
1023.Xr utmp 5
1024.It Sy lpd-errs.*
1025printer daemon error logs; see
1026.Xr lpd 8
1027.It Sy maillog.*
1028.Xr sendmail 8
1029log files
1030.It Sy messages.*
1031general system information log
1032.It Sy monthly.out
1033output of the last run of the
1034.Pa /etc/monthly
1035script
1036.It Sy secure
1037sensitive security information log
1038.It Sy sendmail.st
1039.Xr sendmail 8
1040statistics
1041.It Sy timed.*
1042.Xr timed 8
1043logs
1044.It Sy weekly.out
1045output of the last run of the
1046.Pa /etc/weekly
1047script
1048.It Sy wtmp
1049login/logout log;
1050see
1051.Xr utmp 5
1052.El
1053.Pp
1054.It Sy mail/
1055user system mailboxes
1056.It Sy msgs/
1057system messages; see
1058.Xr msgs 1
1059.\" since we use nvi (now called vi) this isn't the place any more, is it?
1060.It Sy pkg/
1061working files for third party packages
1062.It Sy preserve/
1063temporary home of files preserved after an accidental death of
1064.Xr ex 1
1065or
1066.Xr vi 1
1067.It Sy quotas/
1068filesystem quota information
1069.It Sy run/
1070system information files, rebuilt after each reboot
1071.Pp
1072.Bl -tag -width "utmp" -compact
1073.It Sy utmp
1074database of current users; see
1075.Xr utmp 5
1076.El
1077.Pp
1078.It Sy rwho/
1079rwho data files; see
1080.Xr rwhod 8 ,
1081.Xr rwho 1 ,
1082and
1083.Xr ruptime 1
1084.It Sy spool/
1085miscellaneous printer and mail system spooling directories
1086.Pp
1087.Bl -tag -width "uucppublic/" -compact
1088.It Sy ftp/
1089commonly
1090.Dq ~ftp ,
1091the anonymous ftp root directory; see
1092.Xr ftpd 8
1093.It Sy mqueue/
1094undelivered mail queue;
1095see
1096.Xr sendmail 8
1097.It Sy news/
1098Network news archival and spooling directories
1099.It Sy output/
1100printer spooling directories
1101.It Sy uucp/
1102uucp spool directory
1103.It Sy uucppublic/
1104commonly
1105.Dq ~uucp ,
1106the uucp public temporary directory; see
1107.Xr uucp 1
1108.El
1109.Pp
1110.It Sy tmp/
1111temporary files that are not discarded between system reboots
1112.Pp
1113.Bl -tag -width "vi.recover/" -compact
1114.It Sy vi.recover/
1115recovery directory for new
1116.Xr vi 1
1117.El
1118.It Sy yp/
1119Databases and configuration for the NIS (YP) system; see
1120.Xr nis 8 .
1121.El
1122.El
1123.Sh SEE ALSO
1124.Xr apropos 1 ,
1125.Xr ls 1 ,
1126.Xr whatis 1 ,
1127.Xr whereis 1 ,
1128.Xr which 1
1129.Sh HISTORY
1130A
1131.Nm
1132manual page appeared in
1133.At v7 .
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