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: src/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.local.8,v 1.13 2002/07/14 15:12:00 charnier Exp $ 26.\" $DragonFly: src/libexec/makewhatis.local/makewhatis.local.8,v 1.4 2005/08/05 22:35:10 swildner Exp $ 27.Dd April 26, 1996 28.Dt MAKEWHATIS.LOCAL 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm makewhatis.local , 32.Nm catman.local 33.Nd start makewhatis or catman for local file systems 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.Nm /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local 36.Op options 37.Ar directories ... 38.Nm /usr/libexec/catman.local 39.Op options 40.Ar directories ... 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The 43.Nm 44utility starts 45.Xr makewhatis 8 46only for file systems physically mounted on the system 47where the 48.Nm 49is being executed. Running makewhatis 50by 51.Pa periodic weekly 52for rw nfs-mounted /usr may kill 53your NFS server -- all NFS clients start makewhatis at the same time! 54So use this wrapper for 55.Xr cron 8 56instead of calling makewhatis directly. 57The 58.Nm catman.local 59utility is using for same purposes as 60.Nm 61but for 62.Xr catman 1 . 63.Sh FILES 64.Bl -tag -width /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis.XXX -compact 65.It Pa /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis 66run 67.Nm 68every week 69.It Pa /etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman 70run 71.Nm catman.local 72every week 73.El 74.Sh SEE ALSO 75.Xr catman 1 , 76.Xr find 1 , 77.Xr cron 8 , 78.Xr makewhatis 8 , 79.Xr periodic 8 80.Sh HISTORY 81The 82.Nm 83utility appeared in 84.Fx 2.2 . 85