Danny on Sun, 28 Jul 2002 16:08:39 +0200 (CEST)(envelope-from owner-apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org)


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apsfilter 7.2.2 and FreeBSD 4.3 ?? 

Everytime I want to print something FreeBSD suddenly halts (keyboard doesn't
work etc) and the OS produces the following error messages in
/var/log/lpd-errs

Jul 21 12:28:55 backup lpd[344]: lpd startup: logging=0
Jul 21 12:32:39 backup lpd[352]: lp: filter 'f' terminated (termsig=41)
Jul 21 12:32:39 backup lpd[352]: lp: job could not be printed
(cfA306backup.freebsbsd.org)

I am running the
backup# uname -a
FreeBSD backup.freebsbsd.org 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21
10:54:49 GMT 2001     jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
i386


So I tried installing apsfitler from both the apsfilter.tar.gz (./configure
make install etc) and I tried installing apsfilter from the
/usr/ports/printer/apsfilter I keep getting the following error messages:

install -m 444   doc/handbook.html      /usr/local/share/doc/apsfilter
install -m 444   doc/apsfilter4.png     /usr/local/share/doc/apsfilter
install -m 444   doc/paper              /usr/local/share/doc/apsfilter
install -m 444   man/apsfilter.1        /usr/local/man/man1/apsfilter.1
install -m 444   man/aps2file.1 /usr/local/man/man1/aps2file.1
install -m 444   man/apspreview.1       /usr/local/man/man1/apspreview.1
install -m 444   man/apsfilter-bug.1    /usr/local/man/man1/apsfilter-bug.1
install -m 444   man/apsfilterrc.5      /usr/local/man/man5/apsfilterrc.5
tar cf - driver | ( cd /usr/local/share/apsfilter && tar xf -)
ln -sfn /usr/local/share/apsfilter /usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir
ln: illegal option -- n
usage: ln [-fisv] file1 file2
       ln [-fisv] file ... directory
       link file1 file2
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/print/apsfilter/work/apsfilter.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/print/apsfilter.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/print/apsfilter.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/print/apsfilter.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/print/apsfilter.
** Command failed: make
--->  Restoring the old version

According the FreeBSD mailing list achieve older verisons of FreeBSD doesn't
support ln: illegal option -- n

I was wondering if anyone in this mailing list knows get around this ln
problem without upgrading to the latest version of FreeBSD?