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 1.1 2004/03/25 18:05:49 joerg Exp $ 27.Dd April 26, 1996 28.Dt MAKEWHATIS.LOCAL 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm makewhatis.local , catman.local 32.Nd start makewhatis or catman for local file systems 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local 35.Op options 36.Ar directories ... 37.Nm /usr/libexec/catman.local 38.Op options 39.Ar directories ... 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41The 42.Nm 43utility starts 44.Xr makewhatis 8 45only for file systems physically mounted on the system 46where the 47.Nm 48is being executed. Running makewhatis 49by 50.Pa periodic weekly 51for rw nfs-mounted /usr may kill 52your NFS server -- all NFS clients start makewhatis at the same time! 53So use this wrapper for 54.Xr cron 8 55instead of calling makewhatis directly. 56The 57.Nm catman.local 58utility is using for same purposes as 59.Nm 60but for 61.Xr catman 1 . 62.Sh FILES 63.Bl -tag -width /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis.XXX -compact 64.It Pa /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis 65run 66.Nm 67every week 68.It Pa /etc/periodic/weekly/330.catman 69run 70.Nm catman.local 71every week 72.El 73.Sh SEE ALSO 74.Xr catman 1 , 75.Xr find 1 , 76.Xr makewhatis 1 , 77.Xr cron 8 , 78.Xr periodic 8 79.Sh HISTORY 80The 81.Nm 82utility appeared in 83.Fx 2.2 . 84