| Directory
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Description
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| /usr/bin/ |
Common utilities, programming tools, and applications.
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| /usr/home/user/ |
Home directory of an user
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| /usr/include/ |
Standard C include files.
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| /usr/jails/ |
Jails build upon the chroot(2) concept, which is used to change the root directory of a set of processes. This creates a safe environment, separate from the rest of the system. Processes created in the chrooted environment can not access files or resources outside of it. For that reason, compromising a service running in a chrooted environment should not allow the attacker to compromise the entire system. However, a chroot has several limitations. It is suited to easy tasks which do not require much flexibility or complex, advanced features. Over time, many ways have been found to escape from a chrooted environment, making it a less than ideal solution for securing services.
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| /usr/lib/ |
Archive libraries
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| /usr/lib32/ |
lib32 contains 32-bit libraries, which are required to run any i386-targeted binary, such as wine
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| /usr/libdata/ |
Miscellaneous utility data files.
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| /usr/libexec/ |
System daemons and system utilities executed by other programs.
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| /usr/local |
Local executables and libraries. Also used as the default destination for the FreeBSD ports framework. Within /usr/local, the general layout sketched out by hier(7) for /usr should be used. Exceptions are the man directory, which is directly under /usr/local rather than under /usr/local/share, and the ports documentation is in share/doc/port.
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| /usr/obj/ |
Architecture-specific target tree produced by building the /usr/src tree.
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| /usr/ports/ |
The GhostBSD Ports Collection (optional).
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| /usr/sbin/ |
System daemons and system utilities executed by users.
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| /usr/share/ |
Architecture-independent files.
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| /usr/src/ |
BSD and/or local source files.
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