HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 5 Miscellaneous Topics (vol 9)

hier(5) hier(5)

/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, 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.