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
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makewhatis - Create the whatis database
SYNOPSIS
makewhatis [-u] [-v] [-w] [-s sections ] [-c [catpath]] [manpath]
DESCRIPTION
makewhatis reads all the manual pages contained in the given sections of manpath or the preformatted pages contained in the given sections
of catpath. For each page, it writes a line in the whatis database; each line consists of the name of the page and a short description,
separated by a dash. The description is extracted using the content of the NAME section of the manual page.
Since other languages use a different term for the NAME section, makewhatis recognizes the equivalent terms in Czech, Italian, Finnish,
French, German and Spanish.
If no manpath argument is given, /usr/man is assumed by default.
OPTIONS -u Update database with new pages.
-v Verbose output
-w Use manpath obtained from `man --path`
-s sections
Looks in the sections of manpath or catpath. If the option is absent, its value is assumed to be '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 n l'
-c catpath
The preformatted manual pages located in catpath are scanned. If the argument is not provided, it is assumed to be the first exist-
ing directory between /usr/man/preformat and /usr/man.
EXAMPLES
To rebuild only /usr/X11R6/man/whatis and /usr/local/man/whatis
makewhatis /usr/X11R6/man /usr/local/man
To rebuild all the databases, including those of the Finnish, French and Italian translations
LANGUAGE=fi:fr:it makewhatis -w
BUGS
makewhatis may not handle too well manual pages written with non-standard troff macros, such as the Tcl/Tk pages.
makewhatis does not work on preformatted translations.
SEE ALSO apropos(1), man(1), whatis(1)
22 January 1999 MAKEWHATIS(8)
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