Bug#877888: cups-bsd: lpq and lp ignore the PRINTER environment variable

[Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@olin.edu>]

On 2017-10-11 18:52, Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com> wrote:

> When it came to unstable (only /etc/cups/lpoptions existing) I obtained 
> the same as you did.
>
> It would be good if you would test some of my observations and report
> before the bug is forwarded upstream.

Brian,

I've reproduced your results.  Below is the log.  The only difference
from yours is that my usual printer is called lj400 instead of pcl.  All
tests were run as a regular user starting from no /etc/cups/lpoptions or
~/.cups/lpoptions (restarting cups after moving /etc/cups/lpoptions to
/etc/cups/lpoptions.bak, just in case).

  $ lpstat -a
  lj400 accepting requests since Fri 13 Oct 2017 09:49:03 PM EDT
  [and many others listed]

  $ lpq
  lpq: Error - no default destination available.

  $ PRINTER=lj400 lpq
  lpq: Error - PRINTER environment variable names non-existent destination "lj400".

  $ lpq -Plj400
  lj400 is ready
  no entries

  $ PRINTER=lj400 lp /etc/nsswitch.conf 
  lp: Error - scheduler not responding.

  $ lpoptions -d lj400
  [options displayed]

  $ lpq
  lpq: Error - no default destination available.

  $ PRINTER=xxx lpq
  lpq: Error - PRINTER environment variable names non-existent destination "xxx".

  $ lpq -Plj400
  lj400 is ready
  no entries

  $ PRINTER=lj400 lp /etc/nsswitch.conf
  lp: Error - scheduler not responding.