12LEE

Just gone and leased a server

It's been 15 years since I did anything with Unix. I'm installing RedHat on a spare PC here to try not to break anything on the server and have bought "Linux in a nutshell" to help with syntax.

Any recommendations on guides to explaining what all the bumpf is that I'm finding under /usr, /var, /etc, etc, etc, etc?

Cheers

Lee.

orbv

just start reading the manual page. Guess mouse monkeys would call it online help.

# man ls
# man cat
...

john_s

iTrader: (1)

I've found the linux documentation project a huge help learning to use linux.

www.tldp.org

John

Dirty_Den

Directory What it contains

/ Root dir, top of tree.
/home Directory for user.
/dev Device files that correspond to h/w.
/etc System config files.
/etc/init. Boot files.
/usr/bin Binaries for users.
/bin System binaries.
/usr/sbin Binaries for sysadmin.
/sbin As above.
/sbin/init.d Boot scripts.
/usr/include Header files for compilers.
/usr/share/doc Docs
/usr/man Man pages.
/usr/src System source.
/usr/src/linux Kernel source.
/tmp Temp files.
/var Files that change on a regular basis.
/var/tmp Temp files.
/var/log System logfiles.
/var/adm Admin stuff.
/lib Shared libraries used by applications.
/proc Process management.
/usr/local Extensions for your flavour of Linux.
/opt Optional software (typically installed
after Linux)


Edit - Bugger, what's the escape code for a tab?

Den

[Edited by Dirty_Den - 2/10/2003 9:56:13 PM]