#!/bin/sh # man-db daily cronjob, part of the man-db package. # Unset $MANPATH so that mandb will get it from man_db.conf rather than # the environment: unset MANPATH # Make sure the man-db cache directory exists: mkdir -p /var/cache/man # Regenerate the index databases caches used by man-db. # These increase perfomance and provide features such as whatis and apropos. ionice -c3 nice -n 19 /usr/bin/mandb --quiet