Hi list, Not no off-topic, but a little unix history oriented question.
In hier(7) OpenBSD describe /usr as "Contains the majority of user utilities and applications". In http://www.usna.edu/Users/cs/delooze/teaching/IC221/Lectures/LN02/class02.html they say that /usr "Stands for Unix System Resources. Contains system utilities". In wikipedia they say /usr is "*Secondary hierarchy* for read-only user data; contains the majority of (multi-<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-user>)user utilities and applications" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard So my doubt is: Is "usr" an abbreviation of "user"? If that is so (as as hier(7) can be understood), why /usr contains mainly "system resources" and not "user resources"? In fact only root has w permission inside /usr, so it seems more a system directory. I know that a system directory contains resources for the user, but, just for curiosity, what is the origin of this directory name? A user place o a unix system place? Thanks. Harrell
