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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.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