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 makewhatis.local is being executed. Running makewhatis(8) 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), cron(8), makewhatis(8), periodic(8)

HISTORY
The makewhatis.local utility appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.