i'm playing with CUPS and testing setting per-printer options with "lpoptions". as i read it, any options you set are personal and are stored in the file ~/.lpoptions. so far, so good, but frankly, i've rarely seen a flakier command. first, what the dickens is the "-l" option for? as in, $ lpoptions -l what is this supposed to represent? it bears little resemblance to anything *i've* set and the man page doesn't help much. next, i can add a per-printer option setting with something like: $ lpoptions -p nec -o scale=100 and sure enough, that new info shows up in my ~/.lpoptions. then again, so does any other setting which could contain a bogus printer name, option name or option value. i could type $ lpoptions -p bedrock -o fred=barney and sure enough, i get a new entry representing this info -- not a bit of error checking. but wait, it gets better. if i don't specify a printer, as in $ lpoptions -o scale=50 it's reasonable to see that this option will be applied to my personal default printer. but if i try to *remove* that option with: $ lpoptions -r scale the command fails to remove the info, with no warning or error message -- it just has no effect. apparently, to remove an option, i *must* specify a printer, as in: $ lpoptions -p nec -r scale *and* the options *must* be in that order, otherwise the command again fails silently. there's more but i think you get the idea. yeesh, what a tragically badly-designed command. i've already been admiring the much-improved rawhide version of redhat-config-printer, which i heartily recommend over the mess that is "lpoptions". rday -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
