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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)hier.7 8.5 (Berkeley) 6/1/94 35.\" 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.Bp 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 & 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/ 649.Pp 650.Bl -tag -width "amigappc/" -compact 651.It Sy alpha/ 652support for the Digital Equipment Corp. Alpha architecture 653.It Sy amiga/ 654support for the Amiga architecture 655.It Sy amigappc/ 656support for the PowerPC based Amiga architecture 657.It Sy arc/ 658support for the ARC specification compliant systems. 659.It Sy arm26/ 660support for ARM2 and ARM3 based systems 661.It Sy arm32/ 662support for the ARM32 architecture 663.It Sy atari/ 664support for the Atari architecture 665.It Sy bebox/ 666support for the Be Inc. BeBox architecture 667.It Sy cobalt/ 668support for the Cobalt Networks MIPS Microserver architecture 669.It Sy dreamcast/ 670support for the Sega Dreamcast game console 671.It Sy evbsh3/ 672support for the SH3 based evaluation boards 673.It Sy hp300/ 674support for the Hewlett-Packard 9000/300 68000-based workstations 675.It Sy hpcmips/ 676support for the MIPS based WinCE hand-held devices 677.It Sy hpcsh/ 678support for the Hitachi SH3/4 based WinCE hand-held devices 679.It Sy i386/ 680support for the Intel 386/486/Pentium/etc. workstations 681.It Sy luna68k/ 682support for the Omron LUNA 68000-based workstations 683.It Sy m68k/ 684general support for the 68000 processor 685.It Sy mac68k/ 686support for the Apple Computer 68000-based workstations 687.It Sy macppc/ 688support for the Apple Computer PowerPC-based workstations 689.It Sy mips/ 690general support for MIPS architectures 691.It Sy mipsco/ 692support for Mips Computer Systems Inc. architecture 693.It Sy mmeye/ 694support for the Brains Inc. SH3 based mmEye multimedia server 695.It Sy mvme68k/ 696support for the VME 68000-based cards 697.It Sy news68k/ 698support for the Sony NEWS 68000-based workstations 699.It Sy newsmips/ 700support for the Sony NEWS MIPS-based workstations 701.It Sy next68k/ 702support for the NeXT 68000-based workstations 703.It Sy ofppc/ 704support for Open Firmware PowerPC workstations 705.It Sy pc532/ 706support for the pc532 architecture 707.It Sy pmax/ 708support for the MIPS-based DECstation architecture 709.It Sy powerpc/ 710general support for PowerPC architectures 711.It Sy prep/ 712support for the PowerPC Reference Platform 713.It Sy sgimips/ 714support for the SGI MIPS architecture 715.It Sy sh3/ 716general support for SH3 architectures 717.It Sy sparc/ 718support for the Sun Microsystems SPARC architecture 719.It Sy sparc64/ 720support for the Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC architecture 721.It Sy sun3/ 722support for the Sun Microsystems 68000-based architecture 723.It Sy vax/ 724Digital Equipment Corp. VAX architecture 725.It Sy x68k/ 726support for the Sharp X680x0 68000-based workstations 727.El 728.Pp 729.It Sy compat/ 730kernel compatibility modules directory 731.Pp 732.Bl -tag -width "ossaudio/" -compact 733.It Sy common/ 734common compatibility routines, old 735.Bx 4 736and 737.Nx 738routines. 739.It Sy freebsd/ 740support for 741.Fx 742binaries; see 743.Xr compat_freebsd 8 744.It Sy hpux/ 745support for 68000 HP-UX binaries 746.It Sy ibcs2/ 747support for Intel Binary binaries 748.It Sy linux/ 749support for Linux binaries; see 750.Xr compat_linux 8 751.It Sy m68k4k/ 752support for 4Kb page 68000 binaries 753.It Sy netbsd32/ 754support for 755.Nx 75632-bit binaries on 64 bit platforms with compatible CPU families 757.It Sy osf1/ 758support for 759.Tn Digital 760.Ux 761.Po 762formerly 763.Tn OSF/1 764.Pc 765binaries 766.It Sy ossaudio/ 767support for OSS audio 768.It Sy pecoff/ 769support for 770.Tn Win32 771binaries; see 772.Xr compat_pecoff 8 773.It Sy sunos/ 774support for 775.Tn SunOS 4.x 776binaries; see 777.Xr compat_sunos 8 778.It Sy svr4/ 779support for System V Release 4 binaries; see 780.Xr compat_svr4 8 781.It Sy ultrix/ 782support for 783.Tn Ultrix 784binaries 785.It Sy vax1k/ 786support for older Vax binaries that started on a 1 KB boundary 787.El 788.Pp 789.It Sy conf/ 790architecture independent configuration directory 791.It Sy crypto/ 792cryptographic kernel source, which may have import or export restrictions 793.It Sy ddb/ 794in kernel debugger 795.It Sy dev/ 796architecture independent device support 797.It Sy filecorefs/ 798support for the Acorn RISC OS filecore filesystem; see 799.Xr mount_filecore 8 800.It Sy gdbscripts/ 801support for accessing kernel structures from within the debugger 802.Xr gdb 1 . 803.It Sy ipkdb/ 804support for kernel debugging over the network 805.It Sy isofs/ 806support for ISO filesystems 807.Pp 808.Bl -tag -width "cd9660/" -compact 809.It Sy cd9660/ 810support for the ISO-9660 filesystem; see 811.Xr mount_cd9660 8 812.El 813.Pp 814.It Sy kern/ 815support for the high kernel (system calls) 816.It Sy lib/ 817kernel libraries 818.Pp 819.Bl -tag -width "libkern/" -compact 820.It Sy libkern/ 821C library routines used in the kernel 822.It Sy libsa/ 823machine independant stand alone kernel library 824.It Sy libz/ 825compression library 826.El 827.Pp 828.It Sy lkm/ 829loadable kernel modules 830.Pp 831.Bl -tag -width "gdbscripts/" -compact 832.It Sy compat/ 833LKM support compatibility modules; currently unsupported. 834.It Sy netinet/ 835LKM support networking modules 836.Pp 837.Bl -tag -width "if_ipl/" -compact 838.It Sy if_ipl/ 839LKM for IP-Filter 840.El 841.Pp 842.It Sy vfs/ 843LKM support for file systems. 844.El 845.Pp 846.It Sy miscfs/ 847miscellaneous file systems 848.Pp 849.Bl -tag -width "deadfs/" -compact 850.It Sy deadfs/ 851kernel only dead file system 852.It Sy fdesc/ 853file descriptor file system; see 854.Xr mount_fdesc 8 855.It Sy fifofs/ 856POSIX FIFO support 857.It Sy genfs/ 858kernel only generic file system 859.It Sy kernfs/ 860kernel namespace file system; see 861.Xr mount_kernfs 8 862.It Sy nullfs/ 863loop back file system; see 864.Xr mount_null 8 865.It Sy overlay/ 866overlay file system; see 867.Xr mount_overlay 8 868.It Sy portal/ 869portal file system; see 870.Xr mount_portal 8 871.It Sy procfs/ 872process file system; see 873.Xr mount_procfs 8 874.It Sy specfs/ 875kernel only special file system 876.It Sy syncfs/ 877kernel trickle sync algorithm 878.It Sy umapfs/ 879user and group re-mapping file system; see 880.Xr mount_umap 8 881.It Sy union/ 882union file system; see 883.Xr mount_union 8 884.El 885.Pp 886.It Sy msdosfs/ 887.Tn MS-DOS 888file system; see 889.Xr mount_msdos 8 890.It Sy net/ 891miscellaneous networking support 892.It Sy netatalk/ 893AppleTalk networking support 894.It Sy netccitt/ 895CCITT networking support 896.It Sy netinet/ 897IP networking support 898.It Sy netinet6/ 899IPv6 networking support 900.It Sy netiso/ 901ISO networking support 902.It Sy netkey/ 903Key database for IPsec networking support 904.It Sy netnatm/ 905ATM networking support 906.It Sy netns/ 907XNS networking support 908.It Sy nfs/ 909NFS support 910.It Sy ntfs/ 911NTFS filesystem support 912.It Sy stand/ 913kernel standalone support 914.It Sy sys/ 915kernel (and system) include files 916.It Sy ufs/ 917local filesystem support 918.Pp 919.Bl -tag -width "ffs/" -compact 920.It Sy ffs/ 921the Berkeley Fast File System 922.It Sy lfs/ 923the log-structured file system 924.It Sy mfs/ 925the in-memory file system 926.It Sy ufs/ 927shared 928.Ux 929file system support 930.El 931.It Sy uvm/ 932UVM virtual memory system 933.El 934.It Sy usr.bin/ 935source for utilities/files in 936.Pa /usr/bin 937.It Sy usr.sbin/ 938source for utilities/files in 939.Pa /usr/sbin 940.El 941.It Sy /var/ 942multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files 943.Pp 944.Bl -tag -width "preserve/" -compact 945.It Sy account/ 946system accounting files 947.Pp 948.Bl -tag -width "acct" -compact 949.It Sy acct 950execution accounting file; 951see 952.Xr acct 5 953.El 954.Pp 955.It Sy at/ 956timed command scheduling files; 957see 958.Xr at 1 959.It Sy backups/ 960miscellaneous backup files, largely of files found in 961.Pa /etc 962.It Sy chroot/ 963home directories of applications which are run in a 964.Xr chroot 8 965.Dq cage . 966.It Sy crash/ 967system crash dumps; see 968.Xr savecore 8 969.It Sy cron/ 970scheduled commands configuration files; see 971.Xr cron 8 972.It Sy db/ 973miscellaneous automatically generated system-specific database files 974.It Sy games/ 975miscellaneous game status and log files 976.It Sy heimdal/ 977Kerberos 5 KDC database; see 978.Xr kdc 8 979.It Sy log/ 980miscellaneous system log files 981.Pp 982.Bl -tag -width "monthly.out" -compact 983.It Sy amd.* 984.Xr amd 8 985logs 986.It Sy daily.out 987output of the last run of the 988.Pa /etc/daily 989script 990.It Sy ftp.* 991.Xr ftp 1 992logs 993.It Sy kerberos.* 994.Xr kerberos 8 995logs 996.It Sy lastlog 997system last time logged in log; see 998.Xr utmp 5 999.It Sy lpd-errs.* 1000printer daemon error logs; see 1001.Xr lpd 8 1002.It Sy maillog.* 1003.Xr sendmail 8 1004log files 1005.It Sy messages.* 1006general system information log 1007.It Sy monthly.out 1008output of the last run of the 1009.Pa /etc/monthly 1010script 1011.It Sy secure 1012sensitive security information log 1013.It Sy sendmail.st 1014.Xr sendmail 8 1015statistics 1016.It Sy timed.* 1017.Xr timed 8 1018logs 1019.It Sy weekly.out 1020output of the last run of the 1021.Pa /etc/weekly 1022script 1023.It Sy wtmp 1024login/logout log; 1025see 1026.Xr utmp 5 1027.El 1028.Pp 1029.It Sy mail/ 1030user system mailboxes 1031.It Sy msgs/ 1032system messages; see 1033.Xr msgs 1 1034.\" since we use nvi (now called vi) this isn't the place any more, is it? 1035.It Sy pkg/ 1036working files for third party packages 1037.It Sy preserve/ 1038temporary home of files preserved after an accidental death of 1039.Xr ex 1 1040or 1041.Xr vi 1 1042.It Sy quotas/ 1043filesystem quota information 1044.It Sy run/ 1045system information files, rebuilt after each reboot 1046.Pp 1047.Bl -tag -width "utmp" -compact 1048.It Sy utmp 1049database of current users; see 1050.Xr utmp 5 1051.El 1052.Pp 1053.It Sy rwho/ 1054rwho data files; see 1055.Xr rwhod 8 , 1056.Xr rwho 1 , 1057and 1058.Xr ruptime 1 1059.It Sy spool/ 1060miscellaneous printer and mail system spooling directories 1061.Pp 1062.Bl -tag -width "uucppublic/" -compact 1063.It Sy ftp/ 1064commonly 1065.Dq ~ftp , 1066the anonymous ftp root directory; see 1067.Xr ftpd 8 1068.It Sy mqueue/ 1069undelivered mail queue; 1070see 1071.Xr sendmail 8 1072.It Sy news/ 1073Network news archival and spooling directories 1074.It Sy output/ 1075printer spooling directories 1076.It Sy uucp/ 1077uucp spool directory 1078.It Sy uucppublic/ 1079commonly 1080.Dq ~uucp , 1081the uucp public temporary directory; see 1082.Xr uucp 1 1083.El 1084.Pp 1085.It Sy tmp/ 1086temporary files that are not discarded between system reboots 1087.Pp 1088.Bl -tag -width "vi.recover/" -compact 1089.It Sy vi.recover/ 1090recovery directory for new 1091.Xr vi 1 1092.El 1093.It Sy yp/ 1094Databases and configuration for the NIS (YP) system; see 1095.Xr nis 8 . 1096.El 1097.El 1098.Sh SEE ALSO 1099.Xr apropos 1 , 1100.Xr ls 1 , 1101.Xr whatis 1 , 1102.Xr whereis 1 , 1103.Xr which 1 1104.Sh HISTORY 1105A 1106.Nm 1107manual page appeared in 1108.At v7 . 1109