Pilot error

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pilot error
Usage: n.
Etymology: Sun Microsystems
Derivation: Sun: from aviation

See Also: UBD, PEBKAC, ID10T


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.

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Source: pilot error, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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