ERROR: No space left on device /dev/stdout

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

In news:2852acac-24f0-45f2-adc5-9e8e0612d35b@k19g2000yqc.googlegroups.com,
maximb <maxim.bakushin.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> typed:

> 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

$ ls -l /dev/stdout
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 3 17:27 /dev/stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1

I'd be willing to bet that your listing is different, that /dev/stdout has
somehow been corrupted by something that's happened into an ordinary file
rather than a symbolic link