HP-UX Reference (11i v1 00/12) - 5 Miscellaneous Topics, 7 Device (Special) Files, 9 General Information, Index (vol 9)
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/usr/share/lib Miscellaneoussharable 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, tran-
sient, and spool files.
/var/adm System administrative files, such as log files and accounting files. Some of the
subdirectories are listed below.
/var/adm/crash For saving kernel crash dumps.
/var/adm/cron Directory for cron(1M) queuing.
/var/adm/sw Default location for software distribution depot.
/var/adm/syslog Log files generated by syslog. See syslog(3C) and syslogd(1M).
/var/mail Incoming mail.
/var/news Local-system news articles for news(1).
/var/opt Root of subtree for varying files associated with optional software packages.
/var/preserve Place where ex(1) and vi(1) save lost edit sessions until recovered.
/var/run Files created when daemons are running. For example, the process ID (PID) file
for syslogd, syslog.pid, is put here.
/var/spool Miscellaneous directories for printer spooling, mail delivery, cron(1M), etc.
/var/spool/cron cron(1M) and at(1) spooling files.
/var/spool/lp Printer spool files.
/var/spool/mqueue Outgoing mail and log files containing messages from the mail system.
/var/spool/uucp UUCP spool directory.
/var/tmp Application-generated temporary files. This directory generally is not cleared
between system reboots.
/var/uucp UUCP administration files.
DEPENDENCIES
Some directories include commands or files not supported on all HP-UX implementations.
SEE ALSO
find(1), grep(1), ls(1), whereis(1).
HP-UX Release 11i: December 2000 − 3 − Section 5−−65
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