Set Up JobSheets from lpadmin?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Wed Jun 15 10:29:34 PDT 2005


Anonymous wrote:
>>B.J. Black wrote:
>>
>>>Hi there!
>>>
>>>I've written a script that syncs my CUPS server to a list of printers
>>>from an external source, and...
>>
>>lpadmin ... -o job-sheets-default=foo,bar
> 
> 
> Excellent!  Worked like a charm!
> 
> BTW, what's with having to edit the ppd to change the defaults of ppd options like Duplexer?    If you can change system-wide defaults from the web UI, why not from lpadmin or lpoptions?
> 
> Or is RHEL's version of CUPS just seriously borken?  "lpoptions -o Duplexer=true" and variants thereof did absolutely nothing system-wide.

Use lpadmin to change the PPD defaults.

The lpoptions command just changes your ~/.lpoptions or the
/etc/cups/lpoptions files.

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