Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:30:43 -0700 From: "Thomas Connolly" <tpconnolly@frii.com> To: "'Johnson David'" <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>, "'Peter'" <Peter1994@home.nl> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Unix Freebsd Message-ID: <000a01c2d1fb$b0dc76b0$5608a8c0@ceesi.com> In-Reply-To: <3E493FDA.4020301@acuson.com>
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Here here! I agree with everything you said. Thomas P. Connolly Senior Development Engineer Colorado Engineering Experiment Station Inc. Phone: (970) 897-2711 Fax: (970) 897-2710 Email: tconnolly@ceesi.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Johnson David Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:24 AM To: Peter Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix Freebsd 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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