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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.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 acorn26/ 653ARM2 and ARM3 based systems 654.It Sy acorn32/ 655Acorn RiscPC/A7000/NC and compatibles 656.It Sy algor/ 657Algorithmics MIPS evaluations board 658.It Sy alpha/ 659Digital Equipment Corp. Alpha architecture 660.It Sy amiga/ 661Amiga architecture 662.It Sy amigappc/ 663PowerPC based Amiga architecture 664.It Sy arc/ 665ARC specification compliant systems. 666.It Sy arm/ 667ARM processor general support 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 evbarm/ 681ARM based evaluation boards 682.It Sy evbmips/ 683MIPS based evaluation boards 684.It Sy evbsh3/ 685SH3 based evaluation boards 686.It Sy hp300/ 687Hewlett-Packard 9000/300 680x0-based workstations 688.It Sy hparm/ 689StrongARM based WinCE hand-held devices 690.It Sy hpcmips/ 691MIPS based WinCE hand-held devices 692.It Sy hpcsh/ 693Hitachi SH3/4 based WinCE hand-held devices 694.It Sy i386/ 695Intel 386/486/Pentium/etc. workstations 696.It Sy luna68k/ 697Omron LUNA 68000-based workstations 698.It Sy m68k/ 699680x0 processor support 700.It Sy mac68k/ 701Apple Computer 680x0-based workstations 702.It Sy macppc/ 703Apple Computer PowerPC-based workstations 704.It Sy mips/ 705MIPS processor support 706.It Sy mipsco/ 707Mips Computer Systems Inc. architecture 708.It Sy mmeye/ 709Brains Inc. SH3 based mmEye multimedia server 710.It Sy mvme68k/ 711VME 680x0-based cards 712.It Sy news68k/ 713Sony NEWS 680x0-based workstations 714.It Sy newsmips/ 715Sony NEWS MIPS-based workstations 716.It Sy next68k/ 717NeXT 680x0-based workstations 718.It Sy ofppc/ 719Open Firmware PowerPC workstations 720.It Sy pc532/ 721pc532 architecture 722.It Sy playstation2/ 723SONY PlayStation 2 724.It Sy pmax/ 725MIPS-based DECstation architecture 726.It Sy pmppc/ 727Artesyn's PM/PPC board 728.It Sy powerpc/ 729PowerPC processor support 730.It Sy prep/ 731PowerPC Reference Platform 732.It Sy sandpoint/ 733Motorola Sandpoint reference platform 734.It Sy sbmips/ 735Broadcom/SiByte MIPS architecture 736.It Sy sgimips/ 737SGI MIPS architecture 738.It Sy sh3/ 739SH3 processor general support 740.It Sy shark/ 741StrongARM based Digital DNARD ("Shark") machines 742.It Sy sparc/ 743Sun Microsystems SPARC architecture 744.It Sy sparc64/ 745Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC architecture 746.It Sy sun2/ 747Sun Microsystems 68010-based Sun 2 architecture 748.It Sy sun3/ 749Sun Microsystems 68020/68030-based Sun 3/3x architecture 750.It Sy sun68k/ 751680x0-based Sun architecture general support 752.It Sy vax/ 753Digital Equipment Corp. VAX architecture 754.It Sy walnut/ 755IBM 405GP PowerPC "walnut" evaluation board 756.It Sy x68k/ 757Sharp X680x0 680x0-based workstations 758.It Sy x86_64/ 759AMD x86-64(tm) 64-bit CPU 760.El 761.Pp 762.It Sy compat/ 763kernel compatibility modules directory 764.Pp 765.Bl -tag -width "ossaudio/" -compact 766.It Sy common/ 767common compatibility routines, old 768.Bx 4 769and 770.Nx 771routines. 772.It Sy freebsd/ 773support for 774.Fx 775binaries; see 776.Xr compat_freebsd 8 777.It Sy hpux/ 778support for 68000 HP-UX binaries 779.It Sy ibcs2/ 780support for Intel Binary binaries 781.It Sy linux/ 782support for Linux binaries; see 783.Xr compat_linux 8 784.It Sy m68k4k/ 785support for 4Kb page 68000 binaries 786.It Sy netbsd32/ 787support for 788.Nx 78932-bit binaries on 64 bit platforms with compatible CPU families 790.It Sy osf1/ 791support for 792.Tn Digital 793.Ux 794.Po 795formerly 796.Tn OSF/1 797.Pc 798binaries 799.It Sy ossaudio/ 800support for OSS audio 801.It Sy pecoff/ 802support for 803.Tn Win32 804binaries; see 805.Xr compat_pecoff 8 806.It Sy sunos/ 807support for 808.Tn SunOS 4.x 809binaries; see 810.Xr compat_sunos 8 811.It Sy svr4/ 812support for System V Release 4 binaries; see 813.Xr compat_svr4 8 814.It Sy ultrix/ 815support for 816.Tn Ultrix 817binaries 818.It Sy vax1k/ 819support for older Vax binaries that started on a 1 KB boundary 820.El 821.Pp 822.It Sy conf/ 823architecture independent configuration directory 824.It Sy crypto/ 825cryptographic kernel source, which may have import or export restrictions 826.It Sy ddb/ 827in kernel debugger 828.It Sy dev/ 829architecture independent device support 830.It Sy filecorefs/ 831support for the Acorn RISC OS filecore filesystem; see 832.Xr mount_filecore 8 833.It Sy gdbscripts/ 834support for accessing kernel structures from within the debugger 835.Xr gdb 1 . 836.It Sy ipkdb/ 837support for kernel debugging over the network 838.It Sy isofs/ 839support for ISO filesystems 840.Pp 841.Bl -tag -width "cd9660/" -compact 842.It Sy cd9660/ 843support for the ISO-9660 filesystem; see 844.Xr mount_cd9660 8 845.El 846.Pp 847.It Sy kern/ 848support for the high kernel (system calls) 849.It Sy lib/ 850kernel libraries 851.Pp 852.Bl -tag -width "libkern/" -compact 853.It Sy libkern/ 854C library routines used in the kernel 855.It Sy libsa/ 856machine independant stand alone kernel library 857.It Sy libz/ 858compression library 859.El 860.Pp 861.It Sy lkm/ 862loadable kernel modules 863.Pp 864.Bl -tag -width "gdbscripts/" -compact 865.It Sy compat/ 866LKM support compatibility modules; currently unsupported. 867.It Sy netinet/ 868LKM support networking modules 869.Pp 870.Bl -tag -width "if_ipl/" -compact 871.It Sy if_ipl/ 872LKM for IP-Filter 873.El 874.Pp 875.It Sy vfs/ 876LKM support for file systems. 877.El 878.Pp 879.It Sy miscfs/ 880miscellaneous file systems 881.Pp 882.Bl -tag -width "deadfs/" -compact 883.It Sy deadfs/ 884kernel only dead file system 885.It Sy fdesc/ 886file descriptor file system; see 887.Xr mount_fdesc 8 888.It Sy fifofs/ 889POSIX FIFO support 890.It Sy genfs/ 891kernel only generic file system 892.It Sy kernfs/ 893kernel namespace file system; see 894.Xr mount_kernfs 8 895.It Sy nullfs/ 896loop back file system; see 897.Xr mount_null 8 898.It Sy overlay/ 899overlay file system; see 900.Xr mount_overlay 8 901.It Sy portal/ 902portal file system; see 903.Xr mount_portal 8 904.It Sy procfs/ 905process file system; see 906.Xr mount_procfs 8 907.It Sy specfs/ 908kernel only special file system 909.It Sy syncfs/ 910kernel trickle sync algorithm 911.It Sy umapfs/ 912user and group re-mapping file system; see 913.Xr mount_umap 8 914.It Sy union/ 915union file system; see 916.Xr mount_union 8 917.El 918.Pp 919.It Sy msdosfs/ 920.Tn MS-DOS 921file system; see 922.Xr mount_msdos 8 923.It Sy net/ 924miscellaneous networking support 925.It Sy netatalk/ 926AppleTalk networking support 927.It Sy netccitt/ 928CCITT networking support 929.It Sy netinet/ 930IP networking support 931.It Sy netinet6/ 932IPv6 networking support 933.It Sy netiso/ 934ISO networking support 935.It Sy netkey/ 936Key database for IPsec networking support 937.It Sy netnatm/ 938ATM networking support 939.It Sy netns/ 940XNS networking support 941.It Sy nfs/ 942NFS support 943.It Sy ntfs/ 944NTFS filesystem support 945.It Sy stand/ 946kernel standalone support 947.It Sy sys/ 948kernel (and system) include files 949.It Sy ufs/ 950local filesystem support 951.Pp 952.Bl -tag -width "ffs/" -compact 953.It Sy ffs/ 954the Berkeley Fast File System 955.It Sy lfs/ 956the log-structured file system 957.It Sy mfs/ 958the in-memory file system 959.It Sy ufs/ 960shared 961.Ux 962file system support 963.El 964.It Sy uvm/ 965UVM virtual memory system 966.El 967.It Sy usr.bin/ 968source for utilities/files in 969.Pa /usr/bin 970.It Sy usr.sbin/ 971source for utilities/files in 972.Pa /usr/sbin 973.El 974.It Sy /var/ 975multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files 976.Pp 977.Bl -tag -width "preserve/" -compact 978.It Sy account/ 979system accounting files 980.Pp 981.Bl -tag -width "acct" -compact 982.It Sy acct 983execution accounting file; 984see 985.Xr acct 5 986.El 987.Pp 988.It Sy at/ 989timed command scheduling files; 990see 991.Xr at 1 992.It Sy backups/ 993miscellaneous backup files, largely of files found in 994.Pa /etc 995.It Sy chroot/ 996home directories of applications which are run in a 997.Xr chroot 8 998.Dq cage . 999.It Sy crash/ 1000system crash dumps; see 1001.Xr savecore 8 1002.It Sy cron/ 1003scheduled commands configuration files; see 1004.Xr cron 8 1005.It Sy db/ 1006miscellaneous automatically generated system-specific database files 1007.It Sy games/ 1008miscellaneous game status and log files 1009.It Sy heimdal/ 1010Kerberos 5 KDC database; see 1011.Xr kdc 8 1012.It Sy log/ 1013miscellaneous system log files 1014.Pp 1015.Bl -tag -width "monthly.out" -compact 1016.It Sy amd.* 1017.Xr amd 8 1018logs 1019.It Sy daily.out 1020output of the last run of the 1021.Pa /etc/daily 1022script 1023.It Sy ftp.* 1024.Xr ftp 1 1025logs 1026.It Sy kerberos.* 1027.Xr kerberos 8 1028logs 1029.It Sy lastlog 1030system last time logged in log; see 1031.Xr utmp 5 1032.It Sy lpd-errs.* 1033printer daemon error logs; see 1034.Xr lpd 8 1035.It Sy maillog.* 1036.Xr sendmail 8 1037log files 1038.It Sy messages.* 1039general system information log 1040.It Sy monthly.out 1041output of the last run of the 1042.Pa /etc/monthly 1043script 1044.It Sy secure 1045sensitive security information log 1046.It Sy sendmail.st 1047.Xr sendmail 8 1048statistics 1049.It Sy timed.* 1050.Xr timed 8 1051logs 1052.It Sy weekly.out 1053output of the last run of the 1054.Pa /etc/weekly 1055script 1056.It Sy wtmp 1057login/logout log; 1058see 1059.Xr utmp 5 1060.El 1061.Pp 1062.It Sy mail/ 1063user system mailboxes 1064.It Sy msgs/ 1065system messages; see 1066.Xr msgs 1 1067.\" since we use nvi (now called vi) this isn't the place any more, is it? 1068.It Sy pkg/ 1069working files for third party packages 1070.It Sy preserve/ 1071temporary home of files preserved after an accidental death of 1072.Xr ex 1 1073or 1074.Xr vi 1 1075.It Sy quotas/ 1076filesystem quota information 1077.It Sy run/ 1078system information files, rebuilt after each reboot 1079.Pp 1080.Bl -tag -width "utmp" -compact 1081.It Sy utmp 1082database of current users; see 1083.Xr utmp 5 1084.El 1085.Pp 1086.It Sy rwho/ 1087rwho data files; see 1088.Xr rwhod 8 , 1089.Xr rwho 1 , 1090and 1091.Xr ruptime 1 1092.It Sy spool/ 1093miscellaneous printer and mail system spooling directories 1094.Pp 1095.Bl -tag -width "uucppublic/" -compact 1096.It Sy ftp/ 1097commonly 1098.Dq ~ftp , 1099the anonymous ftp root directory; see 1100.Xr ftpd 8 1101.It Sy mqueue/ 1102undelivered mail queue; 1103see 1104.Xr sendmail 8 1105.It Sy news/ 1106Network news archival and spooling directories 1107.It Sy output/ 1108printer spooling directories 1109.It Sy uucp/ 1110uucp spool directory 1111.It Sy uucppublic/ 1112commonly 1113.Dq ~uucp , 1114the uucp public temporary directory; see 1115.Xr uucp 1 1116.El 1117.Pp 1118.It Sy tmp/ 1119temporary files that are not discarded between system reboots 1120.Pp 1121.Bl -tag -width "vi.recover/" -compact 1122.It Sy vi.recover/ 1123recovery directory for new 1124.Xr vi 1 1125.El 1126.It Sy yp/ 1127Databases and configuration for the NIS (YP) system; see 1128.Xr nis 8 . 1129.El 1130.El 1131.Sh SEE ALSO 1132.Xr apropos 1 , 1133.Xr ls 1 , 1134.Xr whatis 1 , 1135.Xr whereis 1 , 1136.Xr which 1 1137.Sh HISTORY 1138A 1139.Nm 1140manual page appeared in 1141.At v7 . 1142