From: welshm@snail.rtp.dg.com (Matt Welsh) Subject: Re: ibug, Linux Bug Reporting program Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 13:35:12 GMT
In article <1992Jul27.211216.1690@athena.mit.edu> Graham@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>welshm@snail.rtp.dg.com (Matt Welsh) writes:
>
>|It's here: This is "ibug", the bug reporting program that I've
>|written to handle reporting of bugs for Linux over e-mail.
>
>It wasn't clear until down in the shar archive that this utility
>is not meant to be run on Linux, but on your unix computer which
>you use to connect to comp.os.linux. The program fills out a template,
>and if the host you use to connect to comp.os.linux is not a UNIX host
>then you have to fill it out by hand.
>
>The target machine for the bug reporting program should be Linux, not the
>host that you use to access comp.os.linux.
>
>Pat Graham
>Graham@Dockmaster.ncsc.mil
Agreed. I think the best way to do this, however, would be to fill out the
bug report template by hand using vi and then let the person finding the
bug in question upload it to a machine that can mail over the Internet
and THEN mail it to ml-linux-bugs@dg-rtp.dg.com.
By the way, ibug isn't meant to post directly to comp.os.linux. If
you want to post the bug report template to the newsgroup, that's fine,
but any formal report of the problem will do for the newsgroup posting.
Once the problem is verified as a bug, you fill out the template and mail
it off. I'll post the two templates this afternoon so that others can
get to them directly without having to go through the shell archive if
they're not on a UNIX system.
Sorry about the confusion.
mdw
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