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.Dd April 26, 1996 25.Dt MAKEWHATIS.LOCAL 8 26.Os 27.Sh NAME 28.Nm makewhatis.local 29.Nd start makewhatis for local file systems 30.Sh SYNOPSIS 31.Nm /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local 32.Op options 33.Ar directories ... 34.Sh DESCRIPTION 35The 36.Nm 37utility starts 38.Xr makewhatis 1 39only for file systems physically mounted on the system 40where 41.Nm 42is being executed. 43Running makewhatis 44by 45.Pa periodic weekly 46for rw nfs-mounted /usr may kill 47your NFS server -- all NFS clients start makewhatis at the same time! 48So use this wrapper for 49.Xr cron 8 50instead of calling makewhatis directly. 51.Sh FILES 52.Bl -tag -width /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis.XXX -compact 53.It Pa /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis 54run 55.Nm 56every week 57.El 58.Sh SEE ALSO 59.Xr find 1 , 60.Xr makewhatis 1 , 61.Xr cron 8 , 62.Xr periodic 8 63.Sh HISTORY 64The 65.Nm 66utility appeared in 67.Fx 2.2 . 68