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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