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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!bloom-beacon!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!daemon
- From: Patrick Graham <Graham@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL>
- Subject: Re: ibug, Linux Bug Reporting program
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.211216.1690@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: Graham@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 21:12:16 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- 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.
- |lots of stuff includeing shar archive deleted
-
- 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.
-
- I have a suggestion. It wasn't clear if the program was tested on Linux
- or not, but either way, I think the "bug reporting program" whether it's
- ibug or something else should reside on an individuals Linux machine,
- maybe even part of the rootimage disk.
-
- When you find a "bug" you can immediately run the bug reporting program
- to record all of the necessary details, then after determining through this
- group that it actually is a bug, then you can use your favorite comms program
- to transfer your bug report from your Linux box to your host to mail it to
- the responsible person(s).
-
- The target machine for the bug reporting program should be Linux, not the
- host that you use to access comp.os.linux.
-
- Thats my suggestion,
-
- Pat Graham
- Graham@Dockmaster.ncsc.mil
-