6.5. Job Completion Notification Requested

Options used:

• allow_user_logging FLAG users can send status

• lpr_bsd FLAG lpr -m acts as legacy BSD flag

The lpr -m mailaddr option will put the specified mailaddr value into the control file. How this is processed is left to the particular server implementation. See the Abnormal Termination section for details.

LPRng extends the lpr -m mailaddr to allow mail addresses of the form host[%port][/(TCP|UPD)], and when the job is being transferred or printed the lpd server to open a connection to the specified TCP/IP address and send job progress information. This is a security loophole and the allow_user_logging flag must be present to allow this operation.

The lpr_bsd will cause the lpr -m option not to take an argument, as in the BSD lpr, and will place the users name and host information in the control file as the destination for notification.