New option -append: teach makewhatis to only add records, instead

of clobbering the entire database.

sort options in alphabetic order.

install manpage makewhatis.local.8

2 files changed, 56 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.local.8 b/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.local.8
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..acf5212
--- /dev/null
+++ b/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.local.8
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+.\" (c) Wolfram Schneider, Berlin. April 1996. Public Domain.
+.\"
+.\" $Id: makewhatis.local.8,v 1.1 1996/05/14 10:27:26 wosch Exp $
+
+.Dd April, 26, 1996
+.Dt MAKEWHATIS.LOCAL 8
+.Os FreeBSD 2.2
+
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm makewhatis.local , catman.local
+.Nd start makewhatis for local file systems
+
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local
+.Op options
+.Ar directories ...
+.Nm /usr/libexec/catman.local
+.Op options
+.Ar directories ...
+
+
+.Sh DESCRIPTION 
+.Nm
+start 
+.Xr makewhatis 1
+only for file systems physically mounted on the system
+where the 
+.Nm
+is being executed. Running makewhatis
+from 
+.Pa /etc/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 
+.Xr cron 8
+instead calling makewhatis directly.
+
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /etc/weekly.XXX -compact
+.It Pa /etc/weekly 
+run
+.Nm
+every week
+.El
+
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr makewhatis 1 ,
+.Xr catman 1 ,
+.Xr find 1 ,
+.Xr cron 8 .
+
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+command appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.
diff --git a/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.local.sh b/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.local.sh
index 5260e89..d566920 100644
--- a/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.local.sh
+++ b/usr.bin/makewhatis/makewhatis.local.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #
 # PS: this wrapper works also for catman(1)
 #
-# $Id: makewhatis.local.sh,v 1.2 1996/04/27 12:17:01 wosch Exp $
+# $Id: makewhatis.local.sh,v 1.1 1996/05/14 10:27:27 wosch Exp $
 
 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:$PATH; export PATH
 opt= dirs= localdirs=