SUMMARY: Control characters in mail files

[Paul Crittenden <crittend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks to:
Orson Voerckel
Bob Vickers

They both said that this happens when then the root file system fills up,
/tmp in particluar.  Although the root file system isn't full currently the
console had error messages on it indicating it had been.  Thanks for the info.


Original question:
>This is not a major problem but more of an annoyance which we would like
to get >rid of if possible.  Once in a while we have user e-mail files in
the >/var/spool/mail directory which gets control characters as the first
two control >characters in the file.  They are usually a 0? in a black box.
 When these >appear our mail programs can't read the files and say they are
corrupt.   If we >go in and delete those characters then the mail programs
read the file  just >fine.  There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason
for this.  Any ideas?

Paul Crittenden
Computer System Manager
Simpson College
e-mail: crittend@xxxxxxxxxxx

Y2K?  Why not 3?