makewhatis.local(8) BSD System Manager's Manual makewhatis.local(8)
NAME
makewhatis.local -- start makewhatis for local file systems
SYNOPSIS
/usr/libexec/makewhatis.local [options] directories ...
DESCRIPTION
The makewhatis.local utility starts makewhatis(8) only for file systems
physically mounted on the system where the makewhatis.local is being exe-
cuted. Running makewhatis by periodic weekly for rw nfs-mounted /usr may
kill your NFS server -- all NFS clients start makewhatis at the same
time! So use this wrapper for cron(8) instead of calling makewhatis
directly.
FILES
/etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis run makewhatis.local every week
SEE ALSO
find(1), makewhatis(8), cron(8), periodic(8)
HISTORY
The makewhatis.local utility appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.
BSD April 26, 1996 BSD
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