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Re:AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, i... by elros on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:41AM (#22954260)
/usr stands for Unix System Resources
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Re:AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, i... by geocar on Thursday April 23, 2020 @05:59AM (#22954342)
More marketing I'm afraid. See:

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/notes.html

See also, from:

https://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr...

In the original Unix implementations, /usr was where the home directories of the users were placed (that is to say, /usr/someone was then the directory now known as /home/someone).

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Re:AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, i... by mysterydip on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:05AM (#22955038)
Why didn't it go away once /home became common?
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Re:AOL Moloch: open-source, large scale, packet-capturing, i... by gerdesj on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:42AM (#22955295)
It still had /usr/bin and /usr/sbin in it and scripts, muscle memory and general inertia to contend with. Yes of course it should have gone away, perl should have been at v6 and python at v3 years ago.

I'm off to saddle up my piggie squadron for a flypast.

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