Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76480
adding a printer with "lpadmin" can fail silently
Last modified: 2013-09-24 07:52:30 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: when adding a printer with "lpadmin -p", if you don't specify enough options for proper configuration, the lpadmin seems to just fail silently without any error/usage message. when adding a printer with: # lpadmin -p <newprinter> <options> it seems that you should minimally have to specify a PPD file, a device or something like that. however, if you just run # lpadmin -p newone you get a prompt back, no error/usage message, but nothing's changed Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.# lpadmin -p <newprintername> 2. 3. Actual Results: nothing changes, no error message about missing options or proper usage. Expected Results: if the command fails, an error/usage message would be nice. Additional info:
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Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX.