Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:09:56 -0700 From: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Subject: Re: stdout -determining size of?? Message-ID: <200709240409.56605.david@vizion2000.net> In-Reply-To: <20070922190041.GK7562@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200709221052.41399.david@vizion2000.net> <20070922190041.GK7562@dan.emsphone.com>
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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
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