JMAKEWHATIS.LOCAL(8) BSD System Manager's Manual JMAKEWHATIS.LOCAL(8)NAME
jmakewhatis.local, jcatman.local — start jmakewhatis or jcatman.local for
local file systems
SYNOPSIS
/usr/local/libexec/jmakewhatis.local [options] directories ...
/usr/local/libexec/jcatman.local [options] directories ...
DESCRIPTIONjmakewhatis.local start jmakewhatis(1) only for file systems physically
mounted on the system where the jmakewhatis.local is being executed. Run‐
ning jmakewhatis by periodic weekly for rw nfs-mounted /usr may kill your
NFS server -- all NFS clients start jmakewhatis at the same time! So use
this wrapper for cron(8) instead of calling jmakewhatis directly.
jcatman.local is using for same purposes as jmakewhatis.local but for
jcatman(1).
SEE ALSOcron(8), find(1), jcatman(1), jmakewhatis(1), periodic(8).
HISTORY
The makewhatis.local command appeared in FreeBSD 2.2. Japanized
jmakewhatis.local command appeared in ports/packages collection of Free‐
BSD 2.2.
FreeBSD January 15, 2001 FreeBSD