From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 22 19:00:43 2007 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 3E0BE16A419 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:00:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC43513C45A for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:00:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) id l8MJ0fAb040259; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:00:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:00:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: David Southwell Message-ID: <20070922190041.GK7562@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200709221052.41399.david@vizion2000.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200709221052.41399.david@vizion2000.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stdout -determining size of?? 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: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:00:43 -0000 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. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com