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Setting a default site

send-pr is capable of sending Problem Reports to any number of Support Sites, using mail aliases which have ‘-prms’ appended to them. send-pr automatically appends the suffix, so that when you use the input, send-pr site, the Problem Report goes to the address noted in the ‘aliases’ file as ‘site-prms’. You can do this in the Emacs version of send-pr by invoking the program with the keystroke sequence, C-U M-X, and the input in your buffer, send-pr.

You are prompted for site. site is also used to error-check the ‘>Category:’ field, as a precaution against sending mistaken information (and against sending information to the wrong site). You may also simply type send-pr from the shell (or ‘M-X send-pr’ in Emacs), and the Problem Report you generate will be sent to the site, which is usually the site from which you received your distribution of send-pr. If you use PRMS at your own organization, the default is usually your local address for reporting problems. To change this, simply edit the file, Makefile, before installing and change the line, PRMS_SITE =site to reflect the site where you wish to send PRs by default.