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From: robert@pvab.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Directory structure for local dir's
Message-ID: <311@pvab.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 15:42:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: pvab.311
Posted: Fri Aug 28 15:42:54 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Sep-87 05:42:27 EDT
Organization: Statskonsult Programvaruhuset AB, Sweden
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Keywords: directory, tree, structure

I know that this question has been asked before, but I can't find
that article.

I'm a little curious about how I should organize our local 
directories. Where should I put sources, binaries, libes, and so on.
I've been recommended by various people to put my binaries in
/usr/local, /usr/local/bin, /usr/lbin, and even /usr/bin (which AT&T
recommends in their SVID, I think). About the same applies for
sources. /usr/src/local, /usr/local/src, and /usr/lsrc are the names
I've seen. Applications (such as Uniplex, Informix, Today) can be
placed under /usr, /usr/appl, /usr/lib, /usr/opt, /usr/local, among other
places. User's home directories under /usr, /usr/u and /usr/users.

The directory jungle is BIG, and it is getting bigger. We have a network
of several machines from different vendors, of which most of them
runs NFS (including PC's).
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