[13082] in Athena Bugs

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Re: decmips 7.7F: sendbug

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jhawk@MIT.EDU)
Sat Jan 7 03:40:27 1995

From: jhawk@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 1995 03:40:11 -0500
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[13080] in Athena Bugs"


I said:

> I just attempted to submit a bug report using on this machine,
> hodge-podge.mit.edu, in the SIPB office, using ``sendbug'', typed at
> the Bourne shell prompt. ``which sendbug'', which reported
> /usr/athena/bin/sendbug.

This was a poor choice. Apparently which(1) attempts to source a
.cshrc file prior to making it's determination. It terms out I was
running /usr/ucb/sendbug. The man page for which(1) does indeed
document this, so it seems not to be a bug, however misleading.

--jhawk

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