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/sbin/rc3.d Link files to scripts in
/sbin/init.d for entering or leaving run level 3.
/stand Standalone binaries and kernel configuration files.
/tmp System-generated temporary files; generally cleared during the boot operation.
/usr Mount point for sharable user and system administration commands, libraries
and documentation.
/usr/bin Primary location for common utilities and user commands.
/usr/ccs C compilation system. Tools and libraries used to generate C programs.
/usr/ccs/bin Development binaries; includes cc, make, strings, etc.
/usr/ccs/lib Development libraries.
/usr/ccs/lbin Development backends.
/usr/conf Kernel configuration files.
/usr/contrib Directory for user-contributed (unsupported, internal) commands, files, etc.
Files in this directory come from outside the local site or organization (for
example, from users groups or HP service engineers).
/usr/contrib/bin User-contributed commands.
/usr/contrib/include User-contributed include files.
/usr/contrib/lib User-contributed libraries.
/usr/contrib/man User-contributed man pages.
/usr/include Included header files, for C and other programs. Some subdirectories are
listed below.
/usr/include/machine Machine-specific C include files.
/usr/include/nfs C include files for Network File System (NFS).
/usr/include/sys Kernel related C-language header files.
/usr/lbin Directory for backend executables to other commands. A backend executable
is an executable that is generally not invoked directly by the user.
/usr/lib Program libraries, object code and architecture-dependent databases.
/usr/lib/nls Directory for Native Language Support.
/usr/local Directory for site-local commands, files, etc. Files under this directory come
from inside the local site or organization. See /usr/contrib for non-local
unsupported commands and files.
/usr/local/bin Site-local commands.
/usr/local/lib Site-local libraries.
/usr/local/man Site-local man pages.
/usr/newconfig Default operating system configuration data files. This directory is a directory
hierarchy mirroring
/. New versions of customizable configuration files and
databases are shipped here so as not to overwrite current versions. Files in
this directory are copied to regular locations for newly installed systems. Sys-
tem administrators may wish to keep them for later reference.
/usr/old Files and programs that are being phased out or are obsolete.
/usr/sbin System administration commands.
/usr/share Architecture-independent sharable files.
/usr/share/dict Dictionaries for spell and ispell.
/usr/share/lib Miscellaneous sharable libraries.
/usr/share/man Online documentation.
/var Root of subtree for "varying" files. These are files that are created at runtime
and can grow to an arbitrary size. Some examples include log, temporary,
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