From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 23:03:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D586D1065679 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:03:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D7A48FC21 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:03:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m6GN3d2Q090689; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:03:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:03:32 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: David Kelly Message-ID: <20080716230332.GA41205@thought.org> References: <20080714201241.GA22443@thought.org> <20080715073651.P1638@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080715183500.GA76088@thought.org> <20080715190224.GC21840@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20080715215024.GA82902@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: why is this script failing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:03:33 -0000 On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:42:13PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2008, at 4:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > >On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 02:02:24PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > >> [[ ... ]] > > I am not sure why these players store the song in wav format > > without deleting the files, but when my limited /tmp is full, > > certain aps fail mysteriously. with a fwdozen more line of code > > they could at least fail more gracefully. > > You might consider adding something like > > setenv TMPDIR /home/dkelly/tmp > setenv TMP /home/dkelly/tmp > > to your ~/.cshrc (or whatever appropriate for the shell you are > using). This moves "/tmp" for cooperative applications into private > space where you might have more room. Of course KDE is probably > starting via a different route. Or maybe not. > what i should probably do is make extract ktts or amarok and look for /tmp/kde-[usr]/* and se WHY these wav files are ever kept. for kttsd, yeah, it makes going back several lines easier. that may explain why i have found "{garbage}wav{garbage}" where {garbage} is several alpha-numbering. no dots, no hyphens. or files ending in *wav.part" this may be a historical leftover from when memory was very pricey and disk-space much cheaper. [[ guessing ]] > -- > David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net > ======================================================================== > Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org