1.\" Copyright (c) April 1996 Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>. Berlin. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.Dd April 26, 1996 27.Dt MAKEWHATIS.LOCAL 8 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm makewhatis.local 31.Nd start makewhatis for local file systems 32.Sh SYNOPSIS 33.Nm /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local 34.Op options 35.Ar directories ... 36.Sh DESCRIPTION 37The 38.Nm 39utility starts 40.Xr makewhatis 1 41only for file systems physically mounted on the system 42where 43.Nm 44is being executed. 45Running makewhatis 46by 47.Pa periodic weekly 48for rw nfs-mounted /usr may kill 49your NFS server -- all NFS clients start makewhatis at the same time! 50So use this wrapper for 51.Xr cron 8 52instead of calling makewhatis directly. 53.Sh FILES 54.Bl -tag -width /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis.XXX -compact 55.It Pa /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis 56run 57.Nm 58every week 59.El 60.Sh SEE ALSO 61.Xr find 1 , 62.Xr makewhatis 1 , 63.Xr cron 8 , 64.Xr periodic 8 65.Sh HISTORY 66The 67.Nm 68utility appeared in 69.Fx 2.2 . 70