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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Submitting bugs to FreeBSD - HERE'S HOW TO DO IT In-Reply-To: alm@netcom.com's message of Fri, 17 Sep 1993 05: 34:14 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Sep17221911@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <642@apdnews.idca.tds.philips.nl> <almCDHGt3.Cpr@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 22:19:11 GMT Lines: 35 I'm afraid both Andrew and I have spread a little misinformation. I originally said: ].. use bugfiler and answer the questions it asks, the rest is automatic. And Andrew says: >If you are on the net, you can use bugfile(1). Otherwise, you can send >patches to FreeBSD-bugs@FreeBSD.cdrom.com ^^^^^^^ Aiieeee! Upon reading Andrew's mail, it occurred to me that actually, both of these are wrong! (shame on us). First off: To send bug reports, you want to use the sendbug(1) command. The entire package for sending and filing these bugs is known as "the bugfiler", which is where the confusion stepped in, but sendbug is definately the command you want to use. Second, it doesn't take a "net connection" to use sendbug, since all it does is package up your "bug report form" and mail it to us; no direct internet connectivity is required, just mail. So if you can send internet mail you can use sendbug, or you can also send mail to the `FreeBSD-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com' address (do NOT send it to FreeBSD.cdrom.com since it will BOUNCE, this is not the place to send bugs to, just to ftp stuff from!). Thank you for your attention! Jordan -- Jordan Hubbard jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie