makewhatis.local(8)

makewhatis.local8

Start makewhatis for local file systems

Usage

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

Overview

The makewhatis.local utility starts makewhatis(1) only for file systems physically mounted on the system where 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.

Files

/etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis

run makewhatis.local every week

Releases

86 releases since FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE; the text changed 42 times.

  1. 2.1.5–2.1.7.1
  2. 2.2.2–2.2.8
  3. 2.2.9
  4. 3.0–3.2
  5. 3.3–3.5.1
  6. 4.0–4.2
  7. 4.3
  8. 4.4–4.9
  9. 4.10–4.11
  10. 5.0–5.2.1
  11. 5.3–6.3
  12. 6.4
  13. 7.0
  14. 7.1
  15. 7.2
  16. 7.3
  17. 7.4
  18. 8.0
  19. 8.1
  20. 8.2
  21. 8.3
  22. 8.4
  23. 9.0
  24. 9.1
  25. 9.2
  26. 9.3
  27. 10.0
  28. 10.1
  29. 10.2
  30. 10.3
  31. 10.4
  32. 11.0
  33. 11.1
  34. 11.2
  35. 11.3
  36. 11.4
  37. 12.0
  38. 12.1
  39. 12.2
  40. 12.3
  41. 12.4
  42. 13.0–13.2
  43. 13.3–16.0

History

The makewhatis.local utility appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.