Hi,

it's a good question. I'd like to know it, but the issue is that the
legacy application I had mentioned in the original post replaces the
native Linux shell with its own. Thus, the Linux native shell commands
are not interpreted by the application's shell.

Thanks for your time.
maximb

On Nov 3, 2:16 pm, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are you out of RAM?
>
> Jeremiah E. Bess
> Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 00:13, maximb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Nov 2, 9:40 pm, lapisdecor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Is your disk full?
>
> > > On Nov 1, 6:19 am, maximb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi, all.
>
> > > > It is my first post to this group, so please be patient if I do not
> > > > follow an accepted format. Also, if this group is not the right place
> > > > to ask such a questions, please say so and kindly suggest an
> > > > alternative.
>
> > > > I have a legacy software application running on Red Hat 6.1. Yes, it
> > > > is pretty old. Known, that the filesystem in use is the ext2fs.
>
> > > > Sometimes, after a few days of running without a problem, the system
> > > > throws the following error messages as a response to an attempt to
> > > > save or display the curently running configuration:
>
> > > > awk: write failure (No space left on device)
> > > > awk: close failed on file /dev/stdout (No space left on device)
> > > > echo: error writing to the standard output: No space left on device
>
> > > > Somewhere I had read an opinion, that such kind of errors can be
> > > > related to size or avalability of free memory in /tmp directory. Is
> > > > that correct ?
>
> > > > Thanks in advance.
> > > > maximb
>
> > Hi.
>
> > As far as I understand, the filesystem is RAM-mounted.
> > I still not quite understand how /dev/stdout file can suffer from lack
> > of free space... May be the problem arises when the stdout is
> > redirected to another file.
>
> > Thanks for your time.
> > maximb- Hide quoted text -
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