1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)sendbug.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/04/93 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.Bl -tag -width EDITOR 36.It Ev EDITOR 37Specifies the preferred editor. If 38.Ev EDITOR 39is not set, 40.Nm 41defaults to 42.Xr vi 1 . 43.El 44.Sh FILES 45.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/misc/bugformat -compact 46.It Pa /usr/share/misc/bugformat 47Contains the bug report outline. 48.El 49.Sh SEE ALSO 50.Xr vi 1 , 51.Xr environ 7 , 52.Xr bugfiler 8 , 53.Xr sendmail 8 54.Sh HISTORY 55The 56.Nm sendbug 57command 58appeared in 59.Bx 4.2 . 60