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)