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

makewhatis.localstart makewhatis for local file systems

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

The makewhatis.local utility starts makewhatis(8) only for file systems physically mounted on the system where the makewhatis.local is being executed. Running makewhatis 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.

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

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

The makewhatis.local utility appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

April 26, 1996 macOS 14.6