From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: the "lpadmin" command can, with the -o options, set any of the PPD settings in the file /etc/cups/ppd/<printer>.ppd. these options include things like resolution, inputslot and so on -- the stuff listed by "lpoptions -l" (a *really* bad choice for this, since -l has such a history of meaning "long". but i digress. onward.) anyway, if you try to use lpadmin to set a bogus option: # lpadmin -p <printer> -o fred=barney the command quietly fails to set anything, with no error or usage message that this is not a valid PPD or server option. more annoyingly, despite the fact that nothing was changed, both the file /etc/cups/printers.conf and the printer-specific file /etc/cups/ppd/<printer>.ppd have their last-modified timestamps updated. (ok, printers.conf is updated just because a new header line as to its last update time is written at the top of the file. but that's a pretty lame reason.) it can be inconvenient to have last-modified timestamps updated when, effectively, nothing was done. occasionally, it can be useful to see what has changed recently with # find . -mmin -5 # or something like that and it's misleading for these two files to show up as if their contents have been changed when lpadmin should have done input validation and rejected the command in the first place. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. # lpadmin -p <printer> -o wilma=betty 2. 3. Actual Results: no error or usage message about invalid PPD or server options. in addition, /etc/cups/printers.conf and /etc/cups/ppd/<printer>.ppd have their last-modified timestamps updated when, effectively, nothing changed. Expected Results: an error or usage message would be appropriate 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.