Pilot Error N. [Sun: From Aviation] A User's Misconfiguration Or Misuse Of A Piece Of Software, Producing Apparently Buglike Results (compare UBD).

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pilot error n.

[Sun: from aviation] A user's
misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing
apparently buglike results (compare UBD). "Joe Luser
reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus
headers." "That's not a bug, that's pilot error. His
sendmail.cf is hosed."

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