On Monday 24 September 2007 13:09:56 David Southwell wrote: > 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
Locate uses environment variable TMPDIR or /tmp if unset to build it's database. KDE uses /tmp/kde-$USER for some light-weight temporary files, I'm 99% sure Konsole's history is memory only, which is why I've set it to 1000 lines rather then the default unlimited (Settings -> History), because it can consume a very large ammount of memory. I'm thinking you ran outof swap or /tmp was full and then clearing Konsole's history is either a coincidence or Konsole stores history in /tmp/kde-$USER (allthough it doesn't on my machine). -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"