weekly
, weekly.conf
—
weekly maintenance
The /etc/weekly script is run, by default, every
Saturday morning on a NetBSD system. The
/etc/weekly.conf file specifies which of the standard
weekly
services are performed.
The variables described below can be set to “YES” or
“NO” in the /etc/weekly.conf file. The
default settings are in the
/etc/defaults/weekly.conf file. (Note that you
should never edit /etc/defaults/weekly.conf
directly, as it is often replaced during system upgrades.)
- rebuild_locatedb
- This rebuilds the locate(1)
database, /var/db/locate.database, which must also
exist, in order to be rebuilt.
- rebuild_mandb
- This rebuilds the
apropos(1) database
/var/db/man.db, using
makemandb(8) with the
-f
option.
- rebuild_whatisdb
- This rebuilds the whatis(1)
database(s). Note that NetBSD provides a default
whatis.db for the system manual pages and this may not be needed. (Adjust
your /etc/man.conf as necessary; see
man.conf(5) for
details.)
- /etc/weekly
- weekly maintenance script
- /etc/weekly.conf
- weekly maintenance configuration
- /etc/weekly.local
- local site additions to /etc/weekly
The /etc/weekly script first appeared in
4.3BSD. The /etc/weekly.conf
configuration file appeared in NetBSD 1.3.