makewhatis.local(8)

start makewhatis for local file systems

NAME

makewhatis.local – start makewhatis for local file systems

SYNOPSIS

/usr/libexec/makewhatis.local [options] directories ...

DESCRIPTION

The makewhatis.local utility starts makewhatis(1) only for file systems physically mounted on the system where makewhatis.local is being executed. 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

HISTORY

The makewhatis.local utility appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

History

FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27) to FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE: the text shown here
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