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
>
>