Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 169105
lpadmin complains about -p option
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:08 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc3 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: lpadmin seemed to work OK when I first installed RHEL3, but these days I get the following on all sorts of commands (but not a simple /usr/sbin/lpadmin p level5printer): # /usr/sbin/lpadmin p level5printer -E lpadmin: Unknown argument 'p'! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.1.17-13.3.29 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install CUPS printer 2. Run /usr/sbin/lpadmin -P <my printer> -E Actual Results: See error message about unknown argument Expected Results: Print queue should be enabled, no error about unknown argument '-p' Additional info:
It sounds like it isn't actually a dash (-) before the 'p' -- perhaps your keyboard mapping doesn't match your keyboard layout? If you paste this in to a terminal, does it give the results you expect?: /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p level5printer -E
Having quit my gnome-term and restarted my problems have now gone. I note that my copy and paste above no longer looks like a dash either now I have restarted Firefox. Thanks for your help (and I can't believe that was the problem!).