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Operating Systems Solaris I have a silly question Post 302247916 by jlliagre on Thursday 16th of October 2008 04:57:56 PM
Old 10-16-2008
Sorry to contradict the previous answers but if you want to strictly compliant with the SVR4 and Solaris standards don't use /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/scripts or "anywhere" which all violate them.

The whole /usr tree belong to the OS so you shouldn't put your files here.

The recommended location would be: /opt/<your package name>/[bin] or possibly /opt/local/bin if you have no package name to provide.

Should your script need some configuration files, you would put them in /etc/opt/<package> and should your scripts want to write log files, they should go in /var/opt/<package>.

Of course, nobody is going to sue you if you don't follow these standards but you might be in trouble if one day the OS decides to remove, overwrite or forbids you to write to a file/directory you wrongly though was suitable ...
 

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lint

lint(1B)                                             SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands                                             lint(1B)

NAME

       lint - C program verifier

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/ucb/lint [options]

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/ucb/lint  is  the  interface  to  the  BSD  Compatibility  Package  C  program  verifier.   It  is  a  script  that looks for the link
       /usr/ccs/bin/ucblint to the C program verifier. /usr/ccs/bin/ucblint is available only with the SPROcc package, whose default  location  is
       /opt/SUNWspro.  /usr/ucb/lint  is  identical to /usr/ccs/bin/ucblint, except that BSD headers are used and BSD  libraries are linked before
       base libraries.  The /opt/SUNWspro/man/man1/lint.1 man page is available only with the SPROcc package.

OPTIONS

       /usr/ucb/lint accepts the same options as /usr/ccs/bin/ucblint, with the following exceptions:

       -Idir           Search dir for included files whose names do not begin with a slash (/) prior  to  searching  the  usual  directories.  The
                       directories for multiple -I options are searched in the order specified. The preprocessor first searches for #include files
                       in the directory containing sourcefile, and then in directories named with -I options (if any), then  /usr/ucbinclude,  and
                       finally, in /usr/include.

       -Ldir           Add  dir  to  the  list  of  directories  searched  for  libraries  by  /usr/ccs/bin/ucblint.  This  option  is  passed  to
                       /usr/ccs/bin/ld. Directories specified with this option are searched before /usr/ucblib and /usr/lib.

       -Y P, dir       Change the default directory used for finding libraries.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0               Successful completion.

       >0              An error occurred.

FILES

       /usr/lint/bin/ld        link editor

       /usr/lib/libc           C library

       /usr/ucbinclude         BSD Compatibility directory for header files

       /usr/ucblib             BSD Compatibility directory for libraries

       /usr/ucblib/libucb      BSD Compatibility C library

       /usr/lib/libsocket      library containing socket routines

       /usr/lib/libnsl         library containing network functions

       /usr/lib/libelf         library containing routines to process ELF object files

       /usr/lib/libaio         library containing asynchronous I/O routines

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWscpu                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ld(1), a.out(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          1 Feb 1995                                                            lint(1B)
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