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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 powerpc/ 727PowerPC processor support 728.It Sy prep/ 729PowerPC Reference Platform 730.It Sy sandpoint/ 731Motorola Sandpoint reference platform 732.It Sy sbmips/ 733Broadcom/SiByte MIPS architecture 734.It Sy sgimips/ 735SGI MIPS architecture 736.It Sy sh3/ 737SH3 processor general support 738.It Sy shark/ 739StrongARM based Digital DNARD ("Shark") machines 740.It Sy sparc/ 741Sun Microsystems SPARC architecture 742.It Sy sparc64/ 743Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC architecture 744.It Sy sun2/ 745Sun Microsystems 68010-based Sun 2 architecture 746.It Sy sun3/ 747Sun Microsystems 68020/68030-based Sun 3/3x architecture 748.It Sy sun68k/ 749680x0-based Sun architecture general support 750.It Sy vax/ 751Digital Equipment Corp. VAX architecture 752.It Sy walnut/ 753IBM 405GP PowerPC "walnut" evaluation board 754.It Sy x68k/ 755Sharp X680x0 680x0-based workstations 756.It Sy x86_64/ 757AMD x86-64(tm) 64-bit CPU 758.El 759.Pp 760.It Sy compat/ 761kernel compatibility modules directory 762.Pp 763.Bl -tag -width "ossaudio/" -compact 764.It Sy common/ 765common compatibility routines, old 766.Bx 4 767and 768.Nx 769routines. 770.It Sy freebsd/ 771support for 772.Fx 773binaries; see 774.Xr compat_freebsd 8 775.It Sy hpux/ 776support for 68000 HP-UX binaries 777.It Sy ibcs2/ 778support for Intel Binary binaries 779.It Sy linux/ 780support for Linux binaries; see 781.Xr compat_linux 8 782.It Sy m68k4k/ 783support for 4Kb page 68000 binaries 784.It Sy netbsd32/ 785support for 786.Nx 78732-bit binaries on 64 bit platforms with compatible CPU families 788.It Sy osf1/ 789support for 790.Tn Digital 791.Ux 792.Po 793formerly 794.Tn OSF/1 795.Pc 796binaries 797.It Sy ossaudio/ 798support for OSS audio 799.It Sy pecoff/ 800support for 801.Tn Win32 802binaries; see 803.Xr compat_pecoff 8 804.It Sy sunos/ 805support for 806.Tn SunOS 4.x 807binaries; see 808.Xr compat_sunos 8 809.It Sy svr4/ 810support for System V Release 4 binaries; see 811.Xr compat_svr4 8 812.It Sy ultrix/ 813support for 814.Tn Ultrix 815binaries 816.It Sy vax1k/ 817support for older Vax binaries that started on a 1 KB boundary 818.El 819.Pp 820.It Sy conf/ 821architecture independent configuration directory 822.It Sy crypto/ 823cryptographic kernel source, which may have import or export restrictions 824.It Sy ddb/ 825in kernel debugger 826.It Sy dev/ 827architecture independent device support 828.It Sy filecorefs/ 829support for the Acorn RISC OS filecore filesystem; see 830.Xr mount_filecore 8 831.It Sy gdbscripts/ 832support for accessing kernel structures from within the debugger 833.Xr gdb 1 . 834.It Sy ipkdb/ 835support for kernel debugging over the network 836.It Sy isofs/ 837support for ISO filesystems 838.Pp 839.Bl -tag -width "cd9660/" -compact 840.It Sy cd9660/ 841support for the ISO-9660 filesystem; see 842.Xr mount_cd9660 8 843.El 844.Pp 845.It Sy kern/ 846support for the high kernel (system calls) 847.It Sy lib/ 848kernel libraries 849.Pp 850.Bl -tag -width "libkern/" -compact 851.It Sy libkern/ 852C library routines used in the kernel 853.It Sy libsa/ 854machine independant stand alone kernel library 855.It Sy libz/ 856compression library 857.El 858.Pp 859.It Sy lkm/ 860loadable kernel modules 861.Pp 862.Bl -tag -width "gdbscripts/" -compact 863.It Sy compat/ 864LKM support compatibility modules; currently unsupported. 865.It Sy netinet/ 866LKM support networking modules 867.Pp 868.Bl -tag -width "if_ipl/" -compact 869.It Sy if_ipl/ 870LKM for IP-Filter 871.El 872.Pp 873.It Sy vfs/ 874LKM support for file systems. 875.El 876.Pp 877.It Sy miscfs/ 878miscellaneous file systems 879.Pp 880.Bl -tag -width "deadfs/" -compact 881.It Sy deadfs/ 882kernel only dead file system 883.It Sy fdesc/ 884file descriptor file system; see 885.Xr mount_fdesc 8 886.It Sy fifofs/ 887POSIX FIFO support 888.It Sy genfs/ 889kernel only generic file system 890.It Sy kernfs/ 891kernel namespace file system; see 892.Xr mount_kernfs 8 893.It Sy nullfs/ 894loop back file system; see 895.Xr mount_null 8 896.It Sy overlay/ 897overlay file system; see 898.Xr mount_overlay 8 899.It Sy portal/ 900portal file system; see 901.Xr mount_portal 8 902.It Sy procfs/ 903process file system; see 904.Xr mount_procfs 8 905.It Sy specfs/ 906kernel only special file system 907.It Sy syncfs/ 908kernel trickle sync algorithm 909.It Sy umapfs/ 910user and group re-mapping file system; see 911.Xr mount_umap 8 912.It Sy union/ 913union file system; see 914.Xr mount_union 8 915.El 916.Pp 917.It Sy msdosfs/ 918.Tn MS-DOS 919file system; see 920.Xr mount_msdos 8 921.It Sy net/ 922miscellaneous networking support 923.It Sy netatalk/ 924AppleTalk networking support 925.It Sy netccitt/ 926CCITT networking support 927.It Sy netinet/ 928IP networking support 929.It Sy netinet6/ 930IPv6 networking support 931.It Sy netiso/ 932ISO networking support 933.It Sy netkey/ 934Key database for IPsec networking support 935.It Sy netnatm/ 936ATM networking support 937.It Sy netns/ 938XNS networking support 939.It Sy nfs/ 940NFS support 941.It Sy ntfs/ 942NTFS filesystem support 943.It Sy stand/ 944kernel standalone support 945.It Sy sys/ 946kernel (and system) include files 947.It Sy ufs/ 948local filesystem support 949.Pp 950.Bl -tag -width "ffs/" -compact 951.It Sy ffs/ 952the Berkeley Fast File System 953.It Sy lfs/ 954the log-structured file system 955.It Sy mfs/ 956the in-memory file system 957.It Sy ufs/ 958shared 959.Ux 960file system support 961.El 962.It Sy uvm/ 963UVM virtual memory system 964.El 965.It Sy usr.bin/ 966source for utilities/files in 967.Pa /usr/bin 968.It Sy usr.sbin/ 969source for utilities/files in 970.Pa /usr/sbin 971.El 972.It Sy /var/ 973multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files 974.Pp 975.Bl -tag -width "preserve/" -compact 976.It Sy account/ 977system accounting files 978.Pp 979.Bl -tag -width "acct" -compact 980.It Sy acct 981execution accounting file; 982see 983.Xr acct 5 984.El 985.Pp 986.It Sy at/ 987timed command scheduling files; 988see 989.Xr at 1 990.It Sy backups/ 991miscellaneous backup files, largely of files found in 992.Pa /etc 993.It Sy chroot/ 994home directories of applications which are run in a 995.Xr chroot 8 996.Dq cage . 997.It Sy crash/ 998system crash dumps; see 999.Xr savecore 8 1000.It Sy cron/ 1001scheduled commands configuration files; see 1002.Xr cron 8 1003.It Sy db/ 1004miscellaneous automatically generated system-specific database files 1005.It Sy games/ 1006miscellaneous game status and log files 1007.It Sy heimdal/ 1008Kerberos 5 KDC database; see 1009.Xr kdc 8 1010.It Sy log/ 1011miscellaneous system log files 1012.Pp 1013.Bl -tag -width "monthly.out" -compact 1014.It Sy amd.* 1015.Xr amd 8 1016logs 1017.It Sy daily.out 1018output of the last run of the 1019.Pa /etc/daily 1020script 1021.It Sy ftp.* 1022.Xr ftp 1 1023logs 1024.It Sy kerberos.* 1025.Xr kerberos 8 1026logs 1027.It Sy lastlog 1028system last time logged in log; see 1029.Xr utmp 5 1030.It Sy lpd-errs.* 1031printer daemon error logs; see 1032.Xr lpd 8 1033.It Sy maillog.* 1034.Xr sendmail 8 1035log files 1036.It Sy messages.* 1037general system information log 1038.It Sy monthly.out 1039output of the last run of the 1040.Pa /etc/monthly 1041script 1042.It Sy secure 1043sensitive security information log 1044.It Sy sendmail.st 1045.Xr sendmail 8 1046statistics 1047.It Sy timed.* 1048.Xr timed 8 1049logs 1050.It Sy weekly.out 1051output of the last run of the 1052.Pa /etc/weekly 1053script 1054.It Sy wtmp 1055login/logout log; 1056see 1057.Xr utmp 5 1058.El 1059.Pp 1060.It Sy mail/ 1061user system mailboxes 1062.It Sy msgs/ 1063system messages; see 1064.Xr msgs 1 1065.\" since we use nvi (now called vi) this isn't the place any more, is it? 1066.It Sy pkg/ 1067working files for third party packages 1068.It Sy preserve/ 1069temporary home of files preserved after an accidental death of 1070.Xr ex 1 1071or 1072.Xr vi 1 1073.It Sy quotas/ 1074filesystem quota information 1075.It Sy run/ 1076system information files, rebuilt after each reboot 1077.Pp 1078.Bl -tag -width "utmp" -compact 1079.It Sy utmp 1080database of current users; see 1081.Xr utmp 5 1082.El 1083.Pp 1084.It Sy rwho/ 1085rwho data files; see 1086.Xr rwhod 8 , 1087.Xr rwho 1 , 1088and 1089.Xr ruptime 1 1090.It Sy spool/ 1091miscellaneous printer and mail system spooling directories 1092.Pp 1093.Bl -tag -width "uucppublic/" -compact 1094.It Sy ftp/ 1095commonly 1096.Dq ~ftp , 1097the anonymous ftp root directory; see 1098.Xr ftpd 8 1099.It Sy mqueue/ 1100undelivered mail queue; 1101see 1102.Xr sendmail 8 1103.It Sy news/ 1104Network news archival and spooling directories 1105.It Sy output/ 1106printer spooling directories 1107.It Sy uucp/ 1108uucp spool directory 1109.It Sy uucppublic/ 1110commonly 1111.Dq ~uucp , 1112the uucp public temporary directory; see 1113.Xr uucp 1 1114.El 1115.Pp 1116.It Sy tmp/ 1117temporary files that are not discarded between system reboots 1118.Pp 1119.Bl -tag -width "vi.recover/" -compact 1120.It Sy vi.recover/ 1121recovery directory for new 1122.Xr vi 1 1123.El 1124.It Sy yp/ 1125Databases and configuration for the NIS (YP) system; see 1126.Xr nis 8 . 1127.El 1128.El 1129.Sh SEE ALSO 1130.Xr apropos 1 , 1131.Xr ls 1 , 1132.Xr whatis 1 , 1133.Xr whereis 1 , 1134.Xr which 1 1135.Sh HISTORY 1136A 1137.Nm 1138manual page appeared in 1139.At v7 . 1140