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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
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| 12 | .\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software | |
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| 14 | .\" This product includes software developed by the University of | |
| 15 | .\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. | |
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| 17 | .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software | |
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| 20 | .\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND | |
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| 31 | .\" | |
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32 | .\" from: @(#)sendbug.1 6.8 (Berkeley) 5/9/91 |
| 33 | .\" $Id$ | |
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34 | .\" |
| 35 | .Dd May 9, 1991 | |
| 36 | .Dt SENDBUG 1 | |
| 18d560e0 | 37 | .Os FreeBSD 1.0 |
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38 | .Sh NAME |
| 39 | .Nm sendbug | |
| 18d560e0 | 40 | .Nd mail a system bug report to FreeBSD-bugfiler |
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41 | .Sh SYNOPSIS |
| 42 | .Nm sendbug | |
| 43 | .Op Ar address | |
| 44 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | |
| 18d560e0 | 45 | Bug reports sent to `FreeBSD-bugfiler@freefall.cdrom.com' are intercepted |
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46 | by a program which expects bug reports to conform to a standard format. |
| 47 | .Nm Sendbug | |
| 48 | is a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports | |
| 49 | in the correct format. | |
| 50 | .Nm Sendbug | |
| 51 | works by invoking the editor specified by the environment variable | |
| 52 | .Ev EDITOR | |
| 53 | on a temporary copy of the bug report format outline. The user must fill in the | |
| 54 | appropriate fields and exit the editor. | |
| 55 | .Nm Sendbug | |
| 18d560e0 | 56 | then mails the completed report to `FreeBSD-bugfiler@freefall.cdrom.com' or the |
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57 | .Ar address |
| 58 | specified on the command line. | |
| 59 | .Sh ENVIRONMENT | |
| 60 | .Nm Sendbug | |
| 61 | will utilize the following environment variable if it exists: | |
| 62 | .Bl -tag -width EDITOR | |
| 63 | .It Ev EDITOR | |
| 64 | Specifies the preferred editor. If | |
| 65 | .Ev EDITOR | |
| 66 | is not set, | |
| 67 | .Nm | |
| 68 | defaults to | |
| 69 | .Xr vi 1 . | |
| 70 | .El | |
| 71 | .Sh FILES | |
| 72 | .Bl -tag -width /usr/share/misc/bugformat -compact | |
| 73 | .It Pa /usr/share/misc/bugformat | |
| 74 | Contains the bug report outline. | |
| 75 | .El | |
| 76 | .Sh SEE ALSO | |
| 77 | .Xr vi 1 , | |
| 78 | .Xr environ 7 , | |
| 79 | .Xr bugfiler 8 , | |
| 80 | .Xr sendmail 8 | |
| 81 | .Sh HISTORY | |
| 82 | The | |
| 83 | .Nm sendbug | |
| 84 | command | |
| 85 | appeared in | |
| 86 | .Bx 4.2 . |