From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 14 13:14:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FEC316A4CF for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:14:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 659F143D2D for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:14:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from "") Received: from du-209-206.nat.adsl.claranet.fr (du-209-206.nat.adsl.claranet.fr [212.43.209.206]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C91B2A5084; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:14:04 +0100 (CET) From: Olivier Gautherot <> To: Me , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:14:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040214202921.60021.qmail@web42001.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040214202921.60021.qmail@web42001.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402142214.02409.Olivier Gautherot <>> Subject: Re: /tmp/slwns0y0.exe !! X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 21:14:05 -0000 Hi you! :-) The error message says it all:although you're saving to your desktop, the file seems to be first received in /tmp (hence the file name). Try using wget directly and see if it makes a difference. Regarding the .exe file, make sure the link you're trying to download is not a fake ISO image - eventually delivering a Windows executable ... but that pure speculation. If I may ask, what ISO image are you trying to download? Cheerio Olivier On Saturday 14 February 2004 21:29, Me wrote: > I've been trying to download 5.2.1 iso from a couple > of the listed ftp sites at > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/announce.html > > i get about 47% done with the download when I get an > error message saying: there's not enough room on the > disk to save /tmp/slwns0y0.exe > i'm saving to my desktop so I dont possibly see how i > could be running out of disk space in my /usr/home > partition which is over 30 gigs. > besides the file i'm downloading is an ISO file not a > windows executable. Could this be a security issue? is > this an attempt to install and run a trojan or an > attack on windows users? > i'm running FreeBSD 5.2 with IPFILTER set to block all > incomming traffic with statefull out going rules. so I > know this file is not comming from an other location. > > Any help would be appriciated. so far i've tryed a few > of the fpt sites and they all do the same. > > cheers,