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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!panix!news.panix.com!usenet From: perry@jekyll.piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: my ears are burning Date: 18 Feb 1997 13:52:58 -0500 Organization: Partnership for an America Free Drug Lines: 26 Message-ID: <87n2t2t08l.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com> References: <1997Feb17.170830@luckey.citi.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: jekyll.piermont.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.32 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5491 rees@umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes: > Honey tells me you guys are talking about me. > > No, I never filed a PR with netbsd. I tried but couldn't figure out > how. Type "send-pr" at any NetBSD shell prompt. > I did figure out that I wanted to use send-pr, but it didn't work (I > think it wanted to use /bin/mail or sendmail or some other program > that I didn't have set up) and I didn't have the time to figure it > out. send-pr does indeed send its report by mail. A standard NetBSD system comes with /bin/mail and sendmail pre-installed, so I don't really know what the problem you were experiencing was. It is unfortunate that your bug reports were not properly filed, because it is very difficult to track the thousands of reports that have come in with NetBSD bug fixes without having a real database to manage them. People are fallable, fail to read a mailing list, lose track of what they are doing, etc. whereas a tracking system loses nothing. OpenBSD also has a bug tracking system from what I understand.