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From: Marc Miller <_ADDRESS_ELIDED_@mailbox.ucdavis.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:44:52 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PPR: lprsrv ignoring -m

When we upgraded from PPR 1.3x to 1.42 we immediately noticed that jobs
being sent to PPR over lprsrv were no longer executing our responder
script.  All of our servers use the same NIS user/password maps, so when
someone telnets to our central machines and prints something from pine, we
want that user to get notified.

The man page lprsrv confirms this observation "It will always override an
- -m option (which shouldn't be in a switchset anyway)."

Why was -m disabled?  Is there a different set of options we should be
using for that instead?  

For now, we're going to look at what we can change in the source code so
that the -m switch in /usr/ppr/etc/printers/printername is preserved.

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