cat: stdout: No space left on device

Boris Popov bp at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 6 07:53:29 GMT 2005


On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:30:59AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> I got this rather head-scratchworthy error message from a script on a
> 6.0 machine just now:
> 
> cat: stdout: No space left on device

	I've seen that too and sometimes not in a script but at the shell
prompt.  The only cure for that were to terminate current shell.  It is
also interesting that this happens only for /bin/sh and doesn't for bash.

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Boris Popov
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