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filesystem(5)						Standards, Environments, and Macros					     filesystem(5)

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filesystem - File system organization SYNOPSIS
/ /usr DESCRIPTION
The file system tree is organized for administrative convenience. Distinct areas within the file system tree are provided for files that are private to one machine, files that can be shared by multiple machines of a common platform, files that can be shared by all machines, and home directories. This organization allows sharable files to be stored on one machine but accessed by many machines using a remote file access mechanism such as NFS. Grouping together similar files makes the file system tree easier to upgrade and manage. The file system tree consists of a root file system and a collection of mountable file systems. The mount(2) program attaches mountable file systems to the file system tree at mount points (directory entries) in the root file system or other previously mounted file systems. Two file systems, / (the root) and /usr, must be mounted and /var must be accessible to have a functional system. The root file system is mounted automatically by the kernel at boot time; the /usr file system is mounted by the system start-up script, which is run as part of the booting process. /var can be mounted as its own file system or be part of /usr, as it is by default. Certain locations, noted below, are approved installation locations for bundled Foundation Solaris software. In some cases, the approved locations for bundled software are also approved locations for add-on system software or for applications. The following descriptions make clear where the two locations differ. For example, /etc is the installation location for platform-dependent configuration files that are bundled with Solaris software. The analogous location for applications is /etc/opt/packagename. In the following descriptions, subsystem is a category of application or system software, such as a window system (dt) or a language (java1.2) The following descriptions make use of the terms platform, platform-dependent, platform-independent, and platform-specific. Platform refers to a machines Instruction Set Architecture or processor type, such as is returned by uname -i. Platform-dependent refers to a file that is installed on all platforms and whose contents vary depending on the platform. Like a platform-dependent file, a platform-independent file is installed on all platforms. However, the contents of the latter type remains the same on all platforms. An example of a platform-depen- dent file is compiled, executable program. An example of a platform-independent file is a standard configuration file, such as /etc/hosts. Unlike a platform-dependent or a platform-independent file, the platform-specific file is installed only on a subset of supported plat- forms. Most platform-specific files are gathered under /platform and /usr/platform. In the following file or directory descriptions, GNOME stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment. The GNOME Desktop is shipped with the Solaris operating system. Root File System The root file system contains files that are unique to each machine. It contains the following directories: / Root of the overall file system name space. /dev Primary location for special files. Typically, device files are built to match the kernel and hardware configuration of the machine. /dev/cfg Symbolic links to physical ap_ids. /dev/cpu Provides configuration and capability information about the processor type /dev/cua Device files for uucp. /dev/dsk Block disk devices. /dev/dtrace Pseudo-devices used by the DTrace framework. /dev/dtrace/provider Pseudo-device drivers representing instrumentation providers for the DTrace framework. /dev/fbs Frame buffer device files. /dev/fd File descriptors. /dev/md Logical volume management meta-disk devices. /dev/net Network data-link interface devices. /dev/printers USB printer device files. /dev/pts Pseudo-terminal devices. /dev/rdsk Raw disk devices. /dev/rmt Raw tape devices. /dev/sad Entry points for the STREAMS Administrative driver. /dev/sound Audio device and audio device control files. /dev/swap Default swap device. /dev/term Terminal devices. /devices Physical device files. /etc Platform-dependent administrative and configuration files and databases that are not shared among systems. /etc may be viewed as the directory that defines the machine's identity. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /etc/opt/packagename. /etc/X11 Xorg Xserver (X11) configuration files. /etc/acct Accounting system configuration information. /etc/apache Apache configuration files. /etc/apoc Files for configuring Sun Java Desktop System Configuration Manager remote access. /etc/bonobo-activation GNOME XML configuration file for identifying CORBA servers. /etc/cron.d Configuration information for cron(1M). /etc/dat Contains a list of interface adapters supported by uDAPL service providers. /etc/default Defaults information for various programs. /etc/devices Contains device-related data. /etc/dfs Configuration information for shared file systems. /etc/dhcp Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) configuration files. /etc/dmi Solstice Enterprise Agents configuration files. /etc/dt Desktop configuration files. /etc/flash Solaris Flash Archive configuration files. /etc/fm Fault manager configuration files. For more information, see fmd(1M). /etc/fonts Font configuration information for the GNOME Desktop. /etc/fs Binaries organized by file system types for operations required before /usr is mounted. /etc/ftpd ftpd configuration files. /etc/gconf GNOME Desktop user preference files. /etc/gimp GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) configuration files. /etc/gnome GNOME Desktop configuration files. /etc/gnome-vfs-2.0 Files for customizing GNOME 2.0 desktop menus. /etc/gnopernicus-1.0 Configuration files for GNOME's Gnopernicus, an Assistive Technology (AT) screen reader. /etc/gss Generic Security Service (GSS) Application Program Interface configuration files. /etc/gtk GNOME configuration files. /etc/gtk-2.0 GNOME 2.0 Desktop configuration files. /etc/imq Sun Java System Message Queue security configuration files. /etc/inet Configuration files for Internet services. /etc/init.d Shell scripts for transitioning between run levels. /etc/krb5 Kerberos configuration files. /etc/lib Shared libraries needed during booting. /etc/llc2 Logical link control (llc2) driver configuration files. /etc/lp Configuration information for the printer subsystem. /etc/lu Solaris Live Upgrade configuration files. /etc/lvm Solaris Logical Volume Manager configuration files. /etc/mail Mail subsystem configuration. /etc/nca Solaris Network Cache and Accelerator (NCA) configuration files. /etc/net Configuration information for transport independent network services. /etc/nfs NFS server logging configuration file. /etc/opt Configuration information for optional packages. /etc/pam.d This initially empty directory can be used to configure Kerberos for the GNOME Desktop Manager. /etc/pango GNOME 2.0 Desktop locale files. /etc/patch Configuration files for patch management. /etc/ppp Solaris PPP configuration files. /etc/rc0.d Scripts for entering or leaving run level 0. See init(1M). /etc/rc1.d Scripts for entering or leaving run level 1. See init(1M). /etc/rc2.d Scripts for entering or leaving run level 2. See init(1M). /etc/rc3.d Scripts for entering or leaving run level 3. See init(1M). /etc/rcS.d Scripts for bringing the system up in single user mode. /etc/rcm Directory for reconfiguration manager (RCM) custom scripts. /etc/rpcsec This directory might contain an NIS+ authentication configuration file. /etc/saf Service Access Facility files. /etc/sasl Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) server configuration files. /etc/security Solaris-delivered security configuration files (Audit, RBAC, crypto, Trusted Extensions). /etc/sfw Platform-dependent administrative, configuration files and databases for subsystems from /usr/sfw that are not shared among systems. /etc/sfw/samba Samba configuration files. /etc/skel Default profile scripts for new user accounts. See useradd(1M). /etc/sma Systems Management Agent (SMA) configuration files. /etc/smartcard Solaris Smart Card configuration files. /etc/snmp Solstice Enterprise Agents configuration files. /etc/sound Sound files for the GNOME desktop. /etc/ssh Secure Shell configuration files. See ssh(1) /etc/svc SMF service repository. /etc/sysevent syseventd configuration files. /etc/subsystem Platform-dependent subsystem configuration files that are not shared among systems. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /etc/opt/packagename. /etc/tm Trademark files; contents displayed at boot time. /etc/usb USB configuration information. /etc/uucp UUCP configuration information. See uucp(1C). /etc/xml Extensible Markup Language (XML) catalog. /etc/zones Solaris Zones configuration files. /export Default root of the shared file system tree. /home Default root of a subtree for user directories. /kernel Subtree of platform-dependent loadable kernel modules required as part of the boot process. It includes the generic part of the core kernel that is platform-independent, /kernel/genunix. See kernel(1M) An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software and for add-on system software. /kernel/drv 32-bit x86 device drivers. /kernel/drv/sparcv9 64-bit SPARC device drivers. /kernel/drv/amd64 64-bit device drivers for 64-bit x86 platforms. /kernel/dtrace Kernel modules representing components in the DTrace framework. /kernel/genunix Platform-independent kernel. /kernel/amd64/genunix 64-bit, platform-independent kernel. /kernel/subsystem/amd64 64-bit x86 platform-dependent modules required for boot. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software and for add-on system software. /kernel/subsystem/sparcv9 64-bit SPARC platform-dependent modules required for boot. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software and for add- on system software. /lib/svc/manifest SMF method scripts. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/lib/svc/manifest. /mnt Default temporary mount point for file systems. This is an empty directory on which file systems can be temporarily mounted. /net Temporary mount point for file systems that are mounted by the automounter. /opt Root of a subtree for add-on application packages. /platform Subtree of platform-specific objects which need to reside on the root filesystem. It contains a series of directories, one per sup- ported platform. The semantics of the series of directories is equivalent to / (root). /platform/`uname -i`/kernel Platform-specific modules required for boot. These modules have semantics equivalent to /kernel. It includes the file unix, the core kernel. See kernel(1M). An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software and for add-on system software. /platform/`uname -m`/kernel Hardware class-specific modules required for boot. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software and for add-on system software. /platform/`uname -i`/kernel/subsystem/amd64 x86 64-bit, platform-dependent modules required for boot. This is an approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. /platform/`uname -i`/kernel/subsystem/sparcv9 SPARC 64-bit platform-specific modules required for boot. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. /platform/`uname -i`/kernel/sparcv9/unix 64-bit platform-dependent kernel. /platform/`uname -i`/kernel/unix 32-bit platform-dependent kernel on i86 and a symlink to sparcv9/unix on SPARC. /platform/`uname -i`/lib Platform-specific shared objects required for boot. Semantics are equivalent to /lib. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software and for add-on system software. /platform/`uname -i`/sbin Platform-specific administrative utilities required for boot. Semantics are equivalent to /sbin. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software and for add-on system software. /proc Root of a subtree for the process file system. /sbin Essential executables used in the booting process and in manual system recovery. The full complement of utilities is available only after /usr is mounted. /sbin is an approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. /system Mount point for the contract (CTFS) and object (OBJFS) file systems. /tmp Temporary files; cleared during the boot operation. /usr Mount point for the /usr file system. See description of /usr file system, below. /var Root of a subtree for varying files. Varying files are files that are unique to a machine but that can grow to an arbitrary (that is, variable) size. An example is a log file. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /var/opt/packagename. /var/adm System logging and accounting files. /var/apache Scripts, icons, logs, and cache pages for Apache web server. /var/appserver Sun Java System Application Server administrative domain files. /var/audit Default location for Solaris Audit log files. /var/cores Directory provided for global core files storage. /var/crash Default depository for kernel crash dumps. /var/cron Log files for cron(1M). /var/dmi Solstice Enterprise Agents (SEA) Desktop Management Interface (DMI) run-time components. /var/dt dtlogin configuration files. /var/fm Fault manager state files. For more information, see fmd(1M). /var/imq Message queue broker instance configuration file. /var/ftp FTP server directory. /var/inet IPv6 router state files. /var/krb5 Database and log files for Kerberos. /var/ld Configuration files for runtime linker. /var/ldap LDAP client configuration files. /var/lib Login configuration files for GNOME Desktop Manager. /var/log System log files. /var/lp Line printer subsystem logging information. /var/mail Directory where users' mail is kept. /var/mysql Dynamic database directory for MySQL Database Management System. /var/news Community service messages. This is not the same as USENET-style news. /var/nfs NFS server log files. /var/nis NIS+ databases. /var/ntp Network Time Protocol (NTP) server state directory. /var/opt Root of a subtree for varying files associated with optional software packages. An approved installation location for add-on system software and applications. /var/patchsrv Patch management log files. /var/preserve Backup files for vi(1) and ex(1). /var/run Temporary files which are not needed across reboots. Only root may modify the contents of this directory. /var/sadm Databases maintained by the software package management utilities. /var/sadm/system/logs Status log files produced by software management functions and/or applications. For example, log files produced for product installa- tion. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software and for add-on system software and applications. /var/saf Service access facility logging and accounting files. /var/samba Log and lock files for Samba. /var/sma_snmp Systems Management Agent (SMA) security and MIB component information. /var/snmp SNMP status and configuration information. /var/spool Contains directories for files used in printer spooling, mail delivery, cron(1M), at(1), and so forth. /var/spool/clientmqueue sendmail(1M) client files. /var/spool/cron cron(1M) and at(1) spooling files. /var/spool/locks Spooling lock files. /var/spool/lp Line printer spool files. See lp(1). /var/spool/mqueue Mail queued for delivery. /var/spool/pkg Spooled packages. /var/spool/print LP print service client-side request staging area. /var/spool/samba Samba print queue. /var/spool/uucp Queued uucp(1C) jobs. /var/spool/uucppublic Files deposited by uucp(1C). /var/statmon Network status monitor files. /var/svc/log SMF log files. /var/svc/manifest SMF service manifests. An approved installation location for bundled, add-on system software and applications. /var/svc/manifest/site Site-local SMF service manifests. /var/tmp Files that vary in size or presence during normal system operations. This directory is not cleared during the boot operation. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software and for add-on system software and applications. /var/uucp uucp(1C) log and status files. /var/yp Databases needed for backwards compatibility with NIS and ypbind(1M); unnecessary after full transition to NIS+. /usr File System Because it is desirable to keep the root file system small and not volatile, on disk-based systems larger file systems are often mounted on /home, /opt, /usr, and /var. The file system mounted on /usr contains platform-dependent and platform-independent sharable files. The subtree rooted at /usr/share con- tains platform-independent sharable files; the rest of the /usr tree contains platform-dependent files. By mounting a common remote file system, a group of machines with a common platform may share a single /usr file system. A single /usr/share file system can be shared by machines of any platform. A machine acting as a file server can share many different /usr file systems to support several different archi- tectures and operating system releases. Clients usually mount /usr read-only so that they do not accidentally change any shared files. The /usr file system contains the following subdirectories: /usr/4lib a.out libraries for the Binary Compatibility Package. /usr/5bin Symbolic link to the /usr/bin directory. /usr/SUNWale Configuration files for Asian Lanuguage Environment (ALE). /usr/X Symbolic link to the /usr/openwin directory. /usr/X11 Xorg Xserver (X11) executables and documentation. /usr/adm Symbolic link to the /var/adm directory. /usr/apache Apache executables, loadable modules, and documentation. /usr/appserver Sun Java System Application Server software. /usr/benchmarks Directory for benchmarks. /usr/bin Platform-dependent, user-invoked executables. These are commands users expect to be run as part of their normal $PATH. For executables that are different on a 64-bit system than on a 32-bit system, a wrapper that selects the appropriate executable is placed here. See isaexec(3C). An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/bin. /usr/bin/amd64 x86 64-bit, platform-dependent, user-invoked executables. This directory should not be part of a user's $PATH. A wrapper in /usr/bin should invoke the executable in this directory. See isaexec(3C). An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/bin/amd64. /usr/bin/sparcv9 SPARC platform-dependent, user-invoked executables. This directory should not be part of a user's $PATH. A wrapper in /usr/bin should invoke the executable in this directory. See isaexec(3C). An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/bin/sparcv9. /usr/bin/amd64 x86 platform-dependent, user-invoked executables. This directory should not be part of a user's $PATH. A wrapper in /usr/bin should invoke the executable in this directory. See isaexec(3C). An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/bin/amd64. /usr/bin/subsystem Platform-dependent user-invoked executables that are associated with subsystem. These are commands users expect to be run as part of their normal $PATH. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/bin. /usr/subsystem/bin Platform-dependent user-invoked executables that are associated with subsystem. These are commands users expect to be run as part of their normal $PATH. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/bin. /usr/subsystem/bin/amd64 x86 64-bit, platform-dependent, user-invoked executables. This directory should not be part of a user's $PATH. A wrapper in /usr/bin should invoke the executable in this directory. See isaexec(3C). An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/bin/amd64. /usr/subsystem/bin/sparcv9 SPARC 64-bit, platform-dependent, user-invoked executables. This directory should not be part of a user's $PATH. A wrapper in /usr/bin should invoke the executable in this directory. See isaexec(3C). An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/bin/sparcv9. /usr/ccs C compilation system. /usr/ccs/bin C compilation commands and system utilities. /usr/ccs/lib Symbolic link to /usr/lib. /usr/demo Demo programs and data. /usr/dict Symbolic link to the /usr/share/lib/dict directory, which contains the dictionary file used by the UNIX spell program. /usr/dt root of a subtree for CDE software. /usr/dt/bin Primary location for CDE system utilities. /usr/dt/include Header files for CDE software. /usr/dt/lib Libraries for CDE software. /usr/dt/share/man On-line reference manual pages for CDE software. /usr/games An empty directory, a remnant of the SunOS 4.0/4.1 software. /usr/gnome GNOME Desktop applications. /usr/include Include headers (for C programs). /usr/j2se Java 2 SDK executables, loadable modules, and documentation. /usr/java* Directories containing Java programs and libraries. /usr/jdk* Java Platform virtual machine and core class libraries. /usr/kernel Subtree of platform-dependent loadable kernel modules, not needed in the root filesystem. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. /usr/kvm A mount point, retained for backward compatibility, that formerly contained platform-specific binaries and libraries. /usr/lib Platform-dependent libraries, various databases, commands and daemons not invoked directly by a human user. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/lib. /usr/lib/32 Symbolic link to /usr/lib. /usr/lib/64 Symbolic link to the most portable 64-bit Solaris interfaces, on both SPARC and x86 platforms. /usr/lib/acct Accounting scripts and binaries. See acct(1M). /usr/lib/adb adb accounting scripts. /usr/lib/amd64 Platform-dependent libraries, various databases, commands and daemons not invoked directly by a human user on 64-bit x86. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/pack- agename/lib/amd64. /usr/lib/autofs Contains the automountd executable. /usr/lib/cfgadm Contains cfgadm hardware-specific driver plugins. /usr/lib/class Scheduling-class-specific directories containing executables for priocntl(1) and dispadmin(1M). /usr/lib/crypto Contains the kernel-level cryptographic framework daemon (kcfd). /usr/lib/devfsadm Contains devfsadm, the daemon version of devfsadm. /usr/lib/dict Database files for spell(1). /usr/lib/dns Contains DNS resolver libraries. /usr/lib/dtrace Contains dtrace D source files. /usr/lib/flash Contains Solaris flash archive deployment scripts. /usr/lib/fm Contains fmd, the fault manager daemon and the fault manager library. /usr/lib/font troff(1) font description files. /usr/lib/fs File system type dependent modules; generally not intended to be invoked directly by the user. /usr/lib/gss Secure services-related libraries. /usr/lib/iconv Conversion tables for iconv(1). /usr/lib/inet Contains many network-related daemons and libraries. /usr/lib/ipf Contains IPFILTER.LICENCE and ipftest. /usr/lib/ipqosconf IPQoS configuration utility. /usr/lib/krb5 Contains the Kerberos database propagation program and libraries. /usr/lib/ld Contains the map files for the ld link editor. /usr/lib/ldap Contains LDAP client configuration utilities. /usr/lib/libp Profiled libraries. /usr/lib/llc2 Contains logical link control (llc2) driver configuration files. /usr/lib/locale Localization databases. /usr/lib/lp Line printer subsystem databases and back-end executables. /usr/lib/lu Live Upgrade utilities. /usr/lib/netsvc Internet network services. /usr/lib/nfs Auxiliary NFS-related programs and daemons. /usr/lib/nis Contains NIS+ administrative commands. /usr/lib/picl Platform Information and Control Library. /usr/lib/pool Contains the automated resource pools partitioning daemon (poold) and associated libraries. /usr/lib/power Power management daemon, powerd. /usr/lib/print Contains lp conversion scripts and the in.lpd daemon. /usr/lib/rcap Resource cap enforcement daemon, rcapd. /usr/lib/rcm Contains the Reconfiguration and Coordination Manager daemon (rcm_daemon) and RCM scripts. /usr/lib/refer Auxiliary programs for refer(1). /usr/lib/rmmount Removable media mounter shared objects. /usr/lib/sa Scripts and commands for the system activity report package. See sar(1). /usr/lib/saf Auxiliary programs and daemons related to the service access facility. /usr/lib/sasl Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) plug-in modules. /usr/lib/secure Default trusted libraries. /usr/lib/security Solaris security plug-in modules. /usr/lib/smartcard IFD handler libraries. /usr/lib/smedia Removable media device server daemon, rpc.smserverd. /usr/lib/sparcv9 SPARC 64-bit, platform-dependent libraries, various databases, commands and daemons not invoked directly by a human user. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/pack- agename/lib/sparcv9. /usr/lib/spell Auxiliary programs and databases for spell(1). This directory is only present when the Binary Compatibility Package is installed. /usr/lib/ssh Contains the Secure Shell daemon (sshd) and supporting programs. /usr/lib/subsystem Platform-dependent libraries, various databases, commands and daemons that are associated with subsystem and that are not invoked directly by a human user. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/lib. /usr/lib/subsystem/amd64 x86 64-bit, platform-dependent libraries, various databases, commands and daemons that are associated with subsystem and that are not invoked directly by a human user. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/lib/amd64. /usr/lib/subsystem/sparcv9 SPARC 64-bit, platform-dependent libraries, various databases, commands and daemons that are associated with subsystem and that are not invoked directly by a human user. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/lib/sparcv9. /usr/subsystem/lib Platform-dependent libraries, various databases, commands and daemons not invoked directly by a human user. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/lib. /usr/subsystem/lib/amd64 x86 64-bit, platform-dependent libraries, various databases, commands and daemons that are associated with subsystem and that are not invoked directly by a human user. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/lib/amd64. /usr/subsystem/lib/sparcv9 SPARC 64-bit, platform-dependent libraries, various databases, commands and daemons that are associated with subsystem and that are not invoked directly by a human user. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/lib/sparcv9. /usr/lib/sysevent Contains the system event notification daemon (syseventd) and the syseventd loadable module (SLM) repository. /usr/lib/uucp Auxiliary programs and daemons for uucp(1C). /usr/lib/webconsole Sun Java web console programs and scripts. /usr/lib/zones Zone administration daemon (zoneamd). /usr/local Not part of the SVR4-based Solaris distribution. The /usr directory is exclusively for software bundled with the Solaris operating sys- tem. If needed for storing machine-local add-on software, create the directory /opt/local and make /usr/local a symbolic link to /opt/local. The /opt directory or filesystem is for storing add-on software to the system. /usr/mail Symbolic link to the /var/mail directory. /usr/man Symbolic link to the /usr/share/man directory. /usr/net/servers Entry points for foreign name service requests relayed using the network listener. See listen(1M). /usr/news Symbolic link to the /var/news directory. /usr/old Programs that are being phased out. /usr/openwin Installation or mount point for the OpenWindows software. /usr/perl5 Perl 5 programs and documentation /usr/platform Subtree of platform-specific objects which does not need to reside on the root filesystem. It contains a series of directories, one per supported platform. The semantics of the series of directories is equivalent to /platform, except for subdirectories which do not pro- vide utility under one or the other (for example, /platform/include is not needed). /usr/platform/`uname -i`/include Symbolic link to /../`uname -i`/include. Platform-specific system (sys, vm) header files with semantics equivalent to /usr/include. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software and for add-on system software. /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib Platform-specific shared objects with semantics equivalent to /usr/lib. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software and for add-on system software. /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/subsystem/amd64 x86 64-bit, platform-specific daemon and shared objects. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software and for add-on system software. /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin Platform-specific system administration utilities with semantics equivalent to /usr/sbin. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software and for add-on system software. /usr/preserve Symbolic link to the /var/preserve directory. /usr/proc Directory for the proc tools. /usr/pub Symbolic link to /share/lib/pub, which contains files for online man page and character processing. /usr/sadm System administration files and directories. /usr/sadm/bin Binaries for the Form and Menu Language Interpreter (FMLI) scripts. See fmli(1). /usr/sadm/install Executables and scripts for package management. /usr/sbin Platform-dependent executables for system administration, expected to be run only by system administrators. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/sbin. /usr/sbin/install.d Custom Jumpstart scripts and executables. /usr/sbin/sparc7 and sparc9 32-bit and 64-bit versions of commands. /usr/sbin/amd64 64-bit x86versions of commands. /usr/sbin/subsystem Platform-dependent executables for system administration, expected to be run only by system administrators, and associated with subsys- tem. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applica- tions is /opt/packagename/sbin. /usr/subsystem/sbin Platform-dependent executables for system administration, expected to be run only by system administrators, and associated with subsys- tem. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applica- tions is /opt/packagename/sbin. /usr/sfw GNU and open source executables, libraries, and documentation. /usr/share Platform-independent sharable files. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. /usr/share/aclocal Open source m4 files. /usr/share/applications Open source desktop applications files. /usr/share/audio Sample audio files. /usr/share/glib-2.0 Makefile for glib. /usr/share/gnome GNOME Desktop application registry files. /usr/share/gtk-2.0 GNOME 2.0 Desktop demo files. /usr/share/gtk-doc GNOME 2.0 Desktop help files. /usr/share/icons Sun Java Desktop icons. /usr/share/idl Open source Interface Definition Language (IDL) files. /usr/share/intltool XML translation tools. /usr/share/ipfilter Open source IP Filter sample files. /usr/share/javadoc Help files for Message Queue broker and Smart Card applications. /usr/share/lib Platform-independent sharable databases. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. /usr/share/lib/dict Contains word list for spell(1). /usr/share/lib/keytables Keyboard layout description tables. /usr/share/lib/mailx Help files for mailx(1). /usr/share/lib/nterm nroff(1) terminal tables. /usr/share/lib/pub Character set data files. /usr/share/lib/tabset Tab setting escape sequences. /usr/share/lib/terminfo Terminal description files for terminfo(4). /usr/share/lib/tmac Macro packages and related files for text processing tools, for example, nroff(1) and troff(1). /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo Time zone information. /usr/share/man Platform-independent sharable manual pages. An approved installation location for bundled Solaris software. The analogous location for add-on system software or for applications is /opt/packagename/man. /usr/share/omf GNOME Scrollkeeper database files. /usr/share/pixmaps Sun Java graphics. /usr/share/scrollkeeper GNOME Scrollkeeper templates and xslt files. /usr/share/sgml Open source SGML files. /usr/share/sounds Sound files. /usr/share/src Source code for kernel, utilities, and libraries. /usr/share/themes GNOME 2.0 Desktop themes. /usr/share/webconsole Sun Web Console status files. /usr/share/xml GNOME Scrollkeeper DTD files. /usr/snadm Files related to system and network administration. /usr/spool Symbolic link to the /var/spool directory. /usr/src Symbolic link to the /usr/share/src directory. /usr/tmp Symbolic link to the /var/tmp directory. /usr/ucb Berkeley compatibility package binaries. /usr/ucbinclude Berkeley compatibility package headers. /usr/ucblib Berkeley compatibility package libraries. /usr/xpg4 Directory for POSIX-compliant utilities. /usr/xpg6 Directory for newer versions of POSIX-compliant utilities. SEE ALSO
at(1), ex(1), fmli(1), iconv(1), lp(1), isainfo(1), mail(1), mailx(1), nroff(1), priocntl(1), refer(1), sar(1), sh(1), spell(1), troff(1), uname(1), uucp(1C), vi(1), acct(1M), cron(1M), dispadmin(1M), dladm(1M), fmd(1M), fsck(1M), init(1M), kernel(1M), mknod(1M), mount(1M), useradd(1M), ypbind(1M), mount(2), Intro(4), terminfo(4) SunOS 5.11 13 Mar 2009 filesystem(5)
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