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MAKEWHATIS.LOCAL(8)    DragonFly System Manager's Manual   MAKEWHATIS.LOCAL(8)

NAME

makewhatis.local -- start makewhatis for local file systems

SYNOPSIS

/usr/libexec/makewhatis.local [options] directories ...

DESCRIPTION

The makewhatis.local utility starts makewhatis(8) only for file systems physically mounted on the system where makewhatis.local is being executed. Running makewhatis(8) by periodic weekly for rw nfs-mounted /usr may kill your NFS server -- all NFS clients start makewhatis at the same time! So use this wrapper for cron(8) instead of calling makewhatis directly.

FILES

/etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis run makewhatis.local every week

SEE ALSO

find(1), cron(8), makewhatis(8), periodic(8)

HISTORY

The makewhatis.local utility appeared in FreeBSD 2.2. DragonFly 5.5 April 21, 2019 DragonFly 5.5

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