From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 11 10:24:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B78237B405 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:24:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F51E43FB1 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:24:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HA500FMQPRNAM@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:23:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:17:15 -0800 Received: from acuson.com (bull.acuson.com [157.226.46.72]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Y2R0K0N1; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:18:38 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 10:24:26 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: Unix Freebsd To: Peter Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <3E493FDA.4020301@acuson.com> Organization: Acuson MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020611 References: Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter wrote: > Hello people, > > Maybe a stupid question but iam working lately on a unixbased system.. > and i am learning the skills... > At mine work we have a discussion about the names of the folders > especially one folder; ETC.. lot of books [internetfiles] comment this > one as ETCetera... > Is this true? I'm sure there's a real acronym in there somewhere, but I prefer to think of it as simply "etcetera". I've been using UNIX for twenty years, and no one has set me straight yet. > And are the next ones true? BIN=Binairy USR=Unix Sytem Resources?? bin = "bin" as in executable binary, and not "bin" as in storage bin. usr = short for "user", at least that's how I always viewed it. I'm probably wrong, but old habits die hard. It makes sense, because software that is meant for the multiple users (either end users or sysadmins) are stored in /usr somewhere, unless they are needed at boot time or in single user mode. In the long run, these names mean whatever you want them to mean. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message