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- From: moacs11!walra@relay.nl.net (Waldi Ravens)
- Subject: Re: MiNT goes UNiX, invitation for mailing list (MINTOS)
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 1994 23:28:48 +0100
-
- > In the following chart, each column lists differences from the column left
- > to it.
- >
- > BSD-Net2 DEC OSF/1 Linux
- >
- > Config files /etc
- > Single user bins /bin
- > Single user root user /sbin
- > Temporary files /tmp
- >
- > Per machine variable /var
- > Spool directories /var/spool
- > Mail spool /var/mail /var/spool/mail
- > Big tmp /var/tmp
- > Logfiles /var/log /var/adm
- > Accounting files /var/acct /var/adm
- > Crash dumps /var/crash /var/adm/crash
- >
- > Bins /usr/bin
- > UCB bins /usr/ucb /usr/bin (3) /usr/bin
- > Library files /usr/lib
- > Pgms called by pgms /usr/libexec /usr/lbin
- > Data files /usr/libdata /usr/lib (1)
- > Shared libs -- /usr/shlib /usr/lib
- > Programmer's bin, lib /usr/{bin,lib} /usr/ccs/{bin,lib} /usr/{bin,lib}
- > Arch. indep. data files /usr/share /usr/lib
- > Manuals /usr/share/man (2) /usr/man
- > Other stuff /usr/var -> /var
- > /usr/spool -> /var/spool
- > /usr/adm -> /adm
- > /usr/tmp -> /var/tmp
- >
- > Kit specific (4) -- /usr/kits/KITNAME/... --
- > -- /var/kits/KITNAME/... --
-
- What happened to /dev (devices), /dump (core dumps), /home (users),
- /lost+found (reconnected files) and /proc ? Any others I missed ?
-
- What kinda stuff goes into /sbin? Is it the commands that used to be in /etc?
-
- > Some remarks:
- >
- > (1) OSF/1 /usr/lib:
- > most stuff are just symlinks, like
- > libc.a -> ../ccs/lib/libc.a
- > tmac -> ../share/lib/tmac
- >
- > (2) OSF/1 has a symlink
- > /usr/man -> /usr/share/man
- >
- > (3) OSF/1 has a symlink
- > /usr/ucb -> /usr/bin
- >
- > (4) OSF/1 /usr/kits/KITNAME/...
- > /var/kits/KITNAME/...
- > These are kit specific and can be installed and deleted separately (via
- > `setld'). A lot of stuff from /usr is symlinked into these hierarchies.
- >
- > Hmm.. (after some consideration) from my point of view, the Linux column
- > looks best. :-)
-
- Maybe.. allthough I wouldn't want to loose /usr/ucb. I'm not ashamed of
- having compiled some Berkeley sources :-).
-
-
- Regards,
- Waldi (walra%moacs11@nl.net)
-