slackbuilds/system/man-db/man-db.cron

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#!/bin/sh
# man-db daily cronjob, part of the slackbuilds.org man-db package.
# Author: B. Watson.
# Adapted from Debian's man-db package, so I guess the license is GPL.
set -e
if ! [ -d /var/cache/man ]; then
# Recover from deletion, per FHS.
mkdir -p /var/cache/man
chown root:root /var/cache/man || true
chmod 2755 /var/cache/man
fi
# expunge old catman pages which have not been read in a week
# commented out, as we've got cat pages disabled in this build. Left
# here for reference in case someone really wants to enable cat pages
# some day.
#find /var/cache/man -type f -name '*.gz' -atime +6 -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f &> /dev/null
# regenerate man database. /opt/man-db/bin probably isn't in cron's $PATH,
# so check for it specially, otherwise use $PATH.
if [ -x /opt/man-db/bin/mandb ]; then
MANDB=/opt/man-db/bin/mandb
else
MANDB=mandb
fi
$MANDB --no-purge --quiet