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 pur

poses 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

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