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HIER(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual HIER(7) NAME hier - file system hierarchy DESCRIPTION The following outline gives a quick tour through a typical SunOS file system hierarchy: / root directory of the file system /dev/ devices (Section 4) MAKEDEV shell script to create special files MAKEDEV.local site specific part of MAKEDEV console main system console, console(4S) drum paging device, drum(4) *mem memory special files, mem(4S) null null file or data sink, null(4) pty[p-z]* pseudo terminal controllers, pty(4) tty[ab] CPU serial ports, zs(4S) tty[0123][0-f] MTI serial ports mti(4S) tty[hijk][0-f] ALM-2 serial ports mcp(4S) tty[p-z]* pseudo terminals, pty(4) vme* VME bus special files, mem(4S) win window system special files, win(4S) xy* disks, xy(4S) rxy* raw disk interfaces, xy(4S) ... /etc/ system-specific maintenance and data files dumpdates dump history, dump(8) exports table of file systems exportable with NFS, exports(5) fstab file system configuration table, fstab(5) group group file, group(5) hosts host name to network address mapping file, hosts(5) hosts.equiv list of trusted systems, hosts.equiv(5) motd message of the day, login(1) mtab mounted file table, mtab(5) networks network name to network number mapping file, networks(5) passwd password file, passwd(5) phones private phone numbers for remote hosts, as described in phones(5) printcap table of printers and capabilities, printcap(5) protocols protocol name to protocol number mapping file, protocols(5) rc shell program to bring the system up multiuser rc.boot startup file run at boot time rc.local site dependent portion of rc remote names and description of remote hosts for tip(1C), remote(5) services network services definition file, services(5) ttytab database of terminal information used by getty(8) ... /export/ directory of exported files and file systems for clients, including swap files, root, and /usr file systems /home/ directory of mount points for remote-mounted home directories and shared file systems user home (initial working) directory for user .profile set environment for sh(1), environ(5V) .project what you are doing (used by (finger(1)) .cshrc startup file for csh(1) .exrc startup file for ex(1) .plan what your short-term plans are (used by finger(1)) .rhosts host equivalence file for rlogin(1C) .mailrc startup file for mail(1) calendar user's datebook for calendar(1) ... /lost+found directory for connecting detached files for fsck(8) /mnt/ mount point for file systems mounted temporarily /sbin/ executable programs needed to mount /usr/ hostname ifconfig init mount sh /tmp/ temporary files, usually on a fast device, see also /var/tmp/ ctm* used by cc(1V) e* used by ed(1) ... /var/ directory of files that tend to grow or vary in size adm/ administrative log files lastlog record of recent logins, utmp(5V) lpacct line printer accounting lpr(1) messages system messages tracct phototypesetter accounting, troff(1) utmp table of currently logged in users, utmp(5V) vaacct, vpacct varian and versatec accounting vtroff(1), pac(8) wtmp login history, utmp(5V) ... preserve/ editor temporaries preserved here after crashes/hangups spool/ delayed execution files cron/ used by cron(8) lpd/ used by lpr(1) lock present when line printer is active cf* copy of file to be printed, if necessary df* control file for print job tf* transient control file, while lpr is working mail/ mailboxes for mail(1) name mail file for user name name.lock lock file while name is receiving mail mqueue/ mail queue for sendmail(8) secretmail/ like mail/, but used by xsend(1) uucp/ work files and staging area for uucp(1C) LOGFILE summary log LOG.* log file for one transaction ... tmp/ temporary files, to keep /tmp/ small raster used by plot(1G) stm* used by sort(1V) ... yp/ Network Information Service (NIS) database files, ypfiles(5) /usr/ general-purpose directory, usually a mounted file system bin/ utility programs as assembler, as(1) cc C compiler executive, c.f. /usr/lib/ccom, /usr/lib/cpp, /usr/lib/c2 csh the C-shell, csh(1) sh the Bourne shell, sh(1) ... demo/ demonstration programs diag/ system tests and diagnostics dict/ word lists, etc. spellhist history file for spell(1) words principal word list, used by look(1) ... etc/ system administration programs; c.f. section 8 catman update preformatted man pages, catman(8) cron the clock daemon, cron(8) dump file system backup program dump(8) getty part of login(1), getty(8) in.comsat biff server (incoming mail daemon), comsat(8C) init the parent of all processes, init(8) mount mount(8) yp/ NIS programs ypinit build and install NIS database, ypinit(8) yppush force propagation of a changed NIS map, yppush(8) ypset point ypbind at a particular server, ypset(8) ... ... games/ backgammon lib/ library directory for game scores, etc. quiz.k/ what quiz(6) knows africa countries and capitals index category index ... ... ... hosts/ symbolic links to rsh(1C) for commonly accessed remote hosts include/ standard #include files a.out.h object file layout, a.out(5) images/ icon images machine/ header files from /usr/share/sys/sys/machine; may be a symbolic link math.h intro(3M) net/ header files from /usr/share/sys/sys/net; may be a symbolic link nfs/ header files used in the Network File System (NFS) stdio.h standard I/O, intro(3) sys/ kernel header files, c.f. /usr/share/sys/sys ... lib/ object libraries, compiler program binaries, and other data ccom C compiler proper cpp C preprocessor c2 C code improver eign list of English words to be ignored by ptx(1) font/ fonts for troff(1) ftR Times Roman ftB Times Bold ... libc.a system calls, standard I/O, etc. (2,3,3S) libm.a math library, intro(3M) lint/ utility files for lint lint[12] subprocesses for lint(1V) llib-lc dummy declarations for /usr/lib/libc.a, used by lint(1V) llib-lm dummy declarations for /usr/lib/libm.a ... units conversion tables for units(1) uucp/ programs and data for uucp(1C) L.sys remote system names and numbers uucico the real copy program ... ... local/ locally maintained software old/ obsolete and unsupported programs pub/ publicly readable data files sccs/ binaries of programs that compose the source code control system (SCCS) src/ system source code tree stand/ standalone programs (not run under the Sun Operating System) share/ architecture independent files lib/ architecture independent data files termcap description of terminal capabilities, termcap(5) tmac/ macros for troff(1) tmac.an macros for man(7) tmac.s macros for ms(7) ... ... man/ on-line reference manual pages, man(1) man?/ source files (nroff(1)) for sections 1 through 8 of the manual as.1 ... cat?/ preformatted pages for sections 1 through 8 of the manual ... sys/ SunOS kernel source and object modules ucb/ binaries of programs developed at the University of California, Berkeley ex line-oriented editor for experienced users, ex(1) vi screen-oriented editor, vi(1) ... /vmunix the SunOS kernel binary SEE ALSO filesystem(7), find(1), finger(1), grep(1V), ls(1V), rlogin(1C), whatis(1), whereis(1), which(1), ncheck(8) BUGS The locations of files are subject to change without notice; the organization of your file system may vary. This list is incomplete. The Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP). The functionality of the two remains the same; only the name has changed. 10 January 1988 HIER(7)
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