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 6.7 (Berkeley) 03/14/91 7.\" 8.Vx 9.Vx 10.Dd 11.Dt SENDBUG 1 12.Os BSD 4.2 13.Sh NAME 14.Nm sendbug 15.Nd mail a system bug report to 4bsd-bugs 16.Sh SYNOPSIS 17.Nm sendbug 18.Op Ar address 19.Sh DESCRIPTION 20Bug reports sent to `4bsd-bugs@Berkeley.EDU' are intercepted 21by a program which expects bug reports to conform to a standard format. 22.Nm Sendbug 23is a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports 24in the correct format. 25.Nm Sendbug 26works by invoking the editor specified by the environment variable 27.Ev EDITOR 28on a temporary copy of the bug report format outline. The user must fill in the 29appropriate fields and exit the editor. 30.Nm Sendbug 31then mails the completed report to `4bsd-bugs@Berkeley.EDU' or the 32.Ar address 33specified on the command line. 34.Sh ENVIRONMENT 35.Nm Sendbug 36will utilize the following environment variable if it exists: 37.Tw Fl 38.Tp Ev EDITOR 39Specifies the preferred editor. If 40.Ev EDITOR 41is not set, 42.Nm 43defaults to 44.Xr vi 1 . 45.Tp 46.Sh FILES 47.Dw /usr/share/misc/bugformat 48.Di L 49.Dp Pa /usr/share/misc/bugformat 50contains the bug report outline 51.Dp 52.Sh SEE ALSO 53.Xr vi 1 , 54.Xr environ 7 , 55.Xr bugfiler 8 , 56.Xr sendmail 8 57.Sh HISTORY 58.Nm Sendbug 59appeared in 4.2 BSD. 60