[cups.general] Re: PassEnv directive not working?

[Jerome Alet]

On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:09:59PM -0400, Michael Sweet wrote:
> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> >
> >  PassEnv KDEDIR
> >  PassEnv HOME
> >  PassEnv PWD
> >  PassEnv QTDIR
> >  PassEnv HISTSIZE
> >  PassEnv SHELL
> >  PassEnv OSTYPE
> >
> >into cupsd.conf, and try to see them noted in the error_log startup
> >protocol, or amongst the enumeration like
> 
> (it only works if the corresponding environment variable is actually
> defined when you run cupsd...)

I believe what Kurt expected was for the client's environment to be
transmitted to the CUPS server by lp/lpr and then have the CUPS
server export them for its subprocesses.

bye

Jerome Alet