[7307] in Athena Bugs
the -m option to lpr should be disabled
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Mar 14 12:18:49 1991
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 12:18:29 -0500
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The -m option to lpr causes lpr to include a "M<username>" field to the
control file. lpd interprets a "M<username>" record to mean that it
should send mail when the print job is done to "<username>@<originating host>"
For example "tytso@m4-035-w". This is bad, because workstations don't
run SMTP listners. Thus, this mail sits around on the mailhub for three
days, and then a error bounce is sent to "daemon@athena.mit.edu".
The right thing to do is to either disable the -m option, or make it do
the same thing as the -z option, which is to send a Zephyr notification
on job completion.
- Ted
