MAKEWHATIS.LOCAL(8) BSD System Manager's Manual MAKEWHATIS.LOCAL(8)
NAME
makewhatis.local, catman.local -- start makewhatis or catman for local file systems
SYNOPSIS
/usr/libexec/makewhatis.local [options] directories ...
/usr/libexec/catman.local [options] directories ...
DESCRIPTION
The makewhatis.local utility starts makewhatis(1) 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. The catman.local utility is using for same purposes as
makewhatis.local but for catman(1).
FILES
/etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis run makewhatis.local every week
/etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman run catman.local every week
SEE ALSO
catman(1), find(1), makewhatis(1), cron(8), periodic(8)
HISTORY
The makewhatis.local utility appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.
BSD
April 26, 1996 BSD
