The first Unix I worked on, circa 1985, used to make user home
directories under /usr. Even today IRIX makes home directories under
/usr/people, so the instructor wasn't so far away from reality.
Regards,
-- Raju
>>>>> "Suresh" == Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Suresh> *[V.Suresh on Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 03:07:28AM +0530]:
>> Is it true, as opposed to Linux( where user dirs are kept under
>> /home) , user home dirs are kept under /usr dir in Unix? An
>> instructor said so during a training session on OS concepts.
Suresh> Your instructor is generally talking rubbish. I've seen
Suresh> several unices - but none, so far, have user directories
Suresh> under /usr. /home, quite often. /export/home, /opt/home
Suresh> even. A homedir under /usr is rather a new thing to me.
Suresh> I don't know - he might be talking about the college |
Suresh> training institute where he learnt unix - and where some
Suresh> kind soul had thoughtfully mounted homedirs under /usr
--
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