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: head/libexec/makewhatis.local/makewhatis.local.8 323550 2017-09-13 16:35:16Z gordon $ 26.\" 27.Dd April 21, 2019 28.Dt MAKEWHATIS.LOCAL 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm makewhatis.local 32.Nd start makewhatis for local file systems 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local 35.Op options 36.Ar directories ... 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38The 39.Nm 40utility starts 41.Xr makewhatis 8 42only for file systems physically mounted on the system 43where 44.Nm 45is being executed. 46Running 47.Xr makewhatis 8 48by 49.Pa periodic weekly 50for rw nfs-mounted /usr may kill 51your NFS server -- all NFS clients start makewhatis at the same time! 52So use this wrapper for 53.Xr cron 8 54instead of calling makewhatis directly. 55.Sh FILES 56.Bl -tag -width /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis.XXX -compact 57.It Pa /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis 58run 59.Nm 60every week 61.El 62.Sh SEE ALSO 63.Xr find 1 , 64.Xr cron 8 , 65.Xr makewhatis 8 , 66.Xr periodic 8 67.Sh HISTORY 68The 69.Nm 70utility appeared in 71.Fx 2.2 . 72