PERL BEGINNERS 9 RE CAN T OPEN DBM FILE NO SPACE LEFT ON DEVICE
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:57:27 -0600

Subject: Re: can't open dbm file - no space left on device
From: webmaster@no-spam (Webmaster@no-spam

this is a long shot, but I read today about false 'no space left' errors occuring due to chmod settings being 777 on the directories.

I don't know if this has any direct tie to your problem, but you can look at:
http://www.yabbforum.com/community/YaBB.pl?board=featuretroub;action=display;num=1060043950


in case it helps
Katy Brownfield wrote:
> I'm modifying an existing script that has been moved to a new domain and > a new ISP. It opens a DBM file like this > > dbmopen %fileinfo, "../data/fileinfo", 0644
> or die "cannot open fileinfo: $!\n";
> > This fails intermittently with > > [Thu Jul 31 00:46:16 2003] [error] [client 53.259.56.55] cannot open > fileinfo: No space left on device, referer: https://.....
> > No filesystem was full when I checked, while the error was happening, > but the tech support folks at the ISP found that /var was 100% full > earlier today, cleared some space, tested the script when it wasn't > failing and pronounced the problem solved. My skepticism was justified, > because now it's happening again.
> > Is it likely that DBM puts temporary files in /var/tmp? The DBM file > contains only a little test data. Could the device in the error message > be something other than a filesystem? A red herring?
> > Could this have anything to do with something that's under my control?
> > I'd appreciate any insights.
> > Katy > >