pilot error

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

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." Compare {PEBKAC}, {UBD}, {ID10T}.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

pilot error

   <jargon> ({Sun}, from aviation) A user's misconfiguration or
   misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently {bug}-like
   results.

   E.g. "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."

   Compare {UBD}.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1994-12-05)

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