MAKEWHATIS.LOCAL(8)     FreeBSD 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(1) only for file systems
     physically mounted on the system where 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(1), cron(8), periodic(8)

HISTORY
     The makewhatis.local utility appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p6         April 26, 1996         FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p6