On Saturday 22 September 2007 12:00:41 Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 22), David Southwell said: > > How is the the size of stdout controlled. > > > > My query comes about because I had a shell running for ages with > > unlimited history and found it had gobbled uyp all the space available to > > stdout!!! > > Could you provide the error message that made you think that stdout has > a limit? "stdout" could be anything: tty, socket, pipe, file, etc. If > you have redirected stdout from a script to a file, like "ls > ls.txt", > then it's possible that you filled up a filesystem.
Here is what made me ask the question: ------------------------------ Weekly output report: Cleaning up kernel database files: Rebuilding locate database: locate.code: stdout: No space left on device Rebuilding whatis database: -- End of weekly output -- ___________________________ After getting the message I dumped the history and locate.updatedb ran without any problem. David _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
