/var directory layout


/var/log
log files, mostly syslog
/var/adm
log files on some systems
/var/tmp
temporary files, usually preserved across reboots
/var/mail
user mailboxes
/var/spool
spool files for daemons (usually each has a subdir)
/var/spool/mail
user mailboxes (sometimes)
/var/run
daemon PID files

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Steve VanDevender
Last modified: Tue Jun 21 16:24:55 PDT 2011