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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 sys-tem system
     tem where the makewhatis.local is being executed.  Running makewhatis by periodic weekly for rw nfs-mounted nfsmounted
     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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