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 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

SEE ALSO

find(1), makewhatis(8), cron(8), periodic(8)

HISTORY

The makewhatis.local utility appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.