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Man Page: makewhatis.local

Operating Environment: mojave

Section: 8

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 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.
BSD
April 26, 1996 BSD
Related Man Pages
makewhatis(8) - x11r4
makewhatis(1) - freebsd
makewhatis(8) - suse
makewhatis(8) - netbsd
makewhatis(8) - debian
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