1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)sendbug.1 6.6 (Berkeley) 07/24/90 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt SENDBUG 1 10.Os BSD 4.2 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm sendbug 13.Nd mail a system bug report to 4bsd-bugs 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm sendbug 16.Op Ar address 17.Sh DESCRIPTION 18Bug reports sent to `4bsd-bugs@Berkeley.EDU' are intercepted 19by a program which expects bug reports to conform to a standard format. 20.Nm Sendbug 21is a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports 22in the correct format. 23.Nm Sendbug 24works by invoking the editor specified by the environment variable 25.Ev EDITOR 26on a temporary copy of the bug report format outline. The user must fill in the 27appropriate fields and exit the editor. 28.Nm Sendbug 29then mails the completed report to `4bsd-bugs@Berkeley.EDU' or the 30.Ar address 31specified on the command line. 32.Sh ENVIRONMENT 33.Nm Sendbug 34will utilize the following environment variable if it exists: 35.Tw Fl 36.Tp Ev EDITOR 37Specifies the preferred editor. If 38.Ev EDITOR 39is not set, 40.Nm 41defaults to 42.Xr vi 1 . 43.Tp 44.Sh FILES 45.Dw /usr/share/misc/bugformat 46.Di L 47.Dp Pa /usr/share/misc/bugformat 48contains the bug report outline 49.Dp 50.Sh SEE ALSO 51.Xr vi 1 , 52.Xr environ 7 , 53.Xr bugfiler 8 , 54.Xr sendmail 8 55.Sh HISTORY 56.Nm Sendbug 57appeared in 4.2 BSD. 58