Re: 'math error' on irq 13?

I think it is supposed to be like that. It is like that on my system and I think this has been asked before and it was mentioned in the list that for some reason it appears so in /proc/interrupts George On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Britton wrote: While trying (and

upgrade to development kernel

Hi, Today for the first time I tried to compile a devwelopment kernel. Using the kernel package everything went ok during compilation. I installed the kernel at /boot as usual run lilo and did everything I uisually do for a kernel upgrade. However when I rebooted and chose my new kenel it said

Moving from ethernet to a modem

Hi all, I have friend whom I have persuaded to use Debian instead of Win95 :-) He wants to \have an internet connection from his home. As his situation is of interest to me since my studying days will soon be over and I will ghave to move from ethernet to modem as well I have the following

ethernet question

Hi all, For about 12 hours I get through syslog every couple of minutes messages messages such as Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers status ... . Now I have gotten this message before but only a couple of time and then it stopped. I asked the list about it and was told that it is

possible network attack question

Hi, In the last few weeks I have been receiving the following message in syslog with increasing frequency Mar 10 22:19:46 garfield kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, status 7fffceff! I have been told that this is normal and should not worry me. However, as the

Security issues for nfs mount

Hi, I was wondering whether there is anything to worry about if I let another machine nfs mount, read only, root-squash, one directory on my machine. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks George

Re: X boot not automatic SOLVED--

Hi, Maybe I am wrong but doesn't the automatic start of X or not depend on /etc/X11/config ? So if you have no-xdm-start-server in /etc/X11/config, even runing the xdm daemon would not start X automatically ? George On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Victor

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

Hi, Although I am not familiar at all with the inner workings of nfs the description below indicates a risk that an unauthorised client may read files on the specific directory which is being exported by nfs read only. However my worry is not whether somebody else will read the files which in

permission on dos filesystem

Hi, I have been using my dos partition as a store for data files I don't use very often. Creating the files as a normal user, these files and the directories belonged to my username. Today I just found out that the ownerships had changed to root. I tried changing them back as root using chown

Mail command

Hi, As I am on a university network I have no right to send mail on my machine. So I haven't installed any mail software until now. However, I have set up my web page with stuff for downloading and a form. I would like to have the cgi script to send an internal mail to a user on my machine , no

quota bug ?

Hi, I have just installed the quota utility on my system. I did everything by the book but when I would run quota as a user it would say Disk quotas for ... : None . I checked and rechecked everything but it didn't help. I run quotacehk about 2 times and also /etc/init.d/quota start . Then I

pascal

Hi, Could someone tell me which debian package provides pascal support ? Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios

pascal (cont)

Hi, Thanks to all who replied to my question. I have juct installed gpc on my system . However, it requires gcc 2.7.2.2 So I downgraded gcc to 2.7.2.1 I was wondering whether it would be possible to have the newest gcc ( 2.7.2.3 ) together with gpc . Does anyone know if this is possible or

Pascal question

Hi, I have installed the pascal package and downgraded my gcc to 2.7.2.1 for compatibility reasons. In the beginning I got some errors concerning files the package could find By linking then I got through that stage .Now I am getting the following errors garfield:/usr/home/guest$ gpc

X 3.3-6

Hi, I am considering moving from X 3.3-3 which I currently have to X 3.3-6 . However in the last few weeks a number of messages point that there are a number of problems with this upgrade associated also with xlib6g. Can somebody briefly summarise what these are and how to upgrade safely ?

.fvwm2rc question

Hi, I have a pretty minor question which however is bothering me. I am asking fvwm2 through a menu definition in .fvwmrc to kill a process with the command ExecStop It exec kill -9 $(ps aux | grep xlock | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}') This works in the shell but not from

user cron question

Hi, I have cron installed and it works fine. However, I need to run a backup script as a user since I mount a novell network acount with the same username and save my data. So I tried to set up a cron job as a user. I created a file called allow in /var/spool/cron which contained only my

question on free

Hi, Whenever the memory usage on my machine goes up and I use free I get the following total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63252 57316 5936 31364 9492 -/+ buffers:478244190748

Wordperfect files in linux

Hi, Does anyone know of a program that will read WP files in linux ?? TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College

Re: Wordperfect files in linux

Hi, And thanks to everybody who answered my question. To summarise, unless I am prepared to pay some money ( and I am not :-) ) there is no straightforward solution. The only thing available is wp2latex which is not in a Debian package. I 'll probably give it a try. As far as MS-Word is

administration tool for command logging

Hi, I was wondering whether there is a system administration tool which permits the monitoring of specified commands, file access attempts, by users. Thanks George

X upgrade

Hi, From my mirror I see that the setup for X has changed considerably. I am wondering what is the correct procedure to upgrade. I have X 3.3-4 Here is what i think i should do. First upgrade xlib6 to 3.3.1-1, then remove xlib6-dev and everything that depnds on it and install xlib6-altdev,

X problems

Hi, I have tried to upgrade to the libc6 X. All was going alright apart from some ldso warnigs when I upgraded xlib6, most of which went away when I installed xlib6-altdev and installed xlib6g and xlib6g-dev. I upgraded all the other stuff and all seemed fine. Then I tried running X -query

Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers

Hi, I have a question every so often I get messages of the following form Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,s tatus 7fffceff! Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield kernel: eth0: Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers,s tatus 073a858e! Oct 27 20:58:27 garfield

Re: tty uses only bottom line of screen

I had the same problem some time ago. It would happen when I used less. As time went by more and moreof my consoles would suffer that. It stopped on its own after upgrading to a new kernel (at the time I was using 2.0.0 ) and I guess I must have upgraded less at some point. I know this isn't

web question

Hi, I must apologise for asking an irrelevant question but I can't get any help from elewhere. Can anyone give me some references to documentation discussing setting up password protected web pages (or even better a description of how do that :-) )?

2.0.31 kernel source

Does anyone know when the kernel-source-2.0.31 package will be ready ? Or is it exactly the same as the tar.gz source files available from, say, www.kernel.org in which case getting that would do the job ? Thanks George

X process takes over cpu

Hi, Something strange has happened to my X sessions since upgrading to glibc6 stuf (3.3.1-1). Sometimes whan I finish the session an X process ( FvwmButtons ) remains active and uses about 50% of my cpu time. In order to stop it I have to use kill -9. Has anyone else noticed that ? Might this be

Panasonic KxP 6300

Hi, I am thinking of bying a laser printer and the cheapest one I found is the Panasonic KxP 6300. Is anyone using this printer with Debian ? Are there any problems ? Is it any good ? Thanks George

Re: need a hint to mount novell netware.

Hi I am running on a TCP/IP network, have a kernel configured with IPX, use the package ncpfs and have no trouble accessing Novell networks. So you should be OK using the above. Good Luck George On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Dirk

autofs and 2.0.31

Hi, I have compiled a 2.0.31 kernel. One of the reasons for doing so was to use autofs. However when I did make menuconfig I didn't see an option for autofs support. I thought it was in the kernel anyway and instaled he package. However the package does not find autofs support and won't start.

2.0.31 kernel

Hi, I have just installed 2.0.31. I have heard from the list that it might be unstable. However, the statistical package I use for my work seems to be working noticeably faster with this kernel. Has anyone noticed any marked performance improvement or am I mistaken ?

Re: xdm/X not terminating processes on logout

Almost exactly the same thing is happening to my machine. I n case FVWMButtons does not terminate. It has starrted happening after I upgradeed to 3.3.1-1 George On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Brian M. Rectanus wrote: For some reason processes are not being

autofs and ncpfs

Hi, Anyone knows whether autofs can support novell filesystems ? (I guess the answer is no but you never know :-) ) Thanks George

Memory and printing

Hi, I am thinking of bying a laser printer but I have one question. I will be printing some large documents with lots of graphics in them. The files will have the postscript format. For example one file I recently printed was 6.2 Mb. The cheapest laser printer is HP 6L with 1 Mb of memory. Does

suggestion for tape driver

Hi, Thanks for all the help on the question of printer memory. I was thinking at the same time of bying a tape driver fo backing up my system. Has anyone got any suggestion for a good tape driver which works with Debian ? The system I will be backing up is about 2 Gig. Any suggestions will be

URGENT: strange floppy behaviour

Hi, I tried to mount my floppy, the mount failed. I had to press CTRL-C a number of times to get apropmpt and got the following messages in syslog Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: floppy driver state Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel: --- Nov 19 14:26:34 garfield kernel:

tape driver configuration(cont)

Hi, following my previous email. A note: all devices seem to be where and how they should be, permissions and all ... George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge,

tape driver configuration

Hi, I have just installed a new tape driver ( seagate travan 3200 ). I have tried it u der windows and it works ok. I am trying to make it work under Linux. I have installed ftape-2.0.30 and am using a 2.0.30 kernel. When ftape was installed it complain that the modules were unresolved symbols.

taper question

Hi all, I have managed to install my tape drive ( Seagate travan 3200 on a floppy controller ) and to have it work under Debian . I even managed to figure out how to make the modules detect the new floppy controller ( not easy in my case :-) ) . As far as I can see only taper exists for user

HP printer and printcap

Hi, I have just installed a new HP 6L printer. It works fine under Windows. It works under DEbian but only reacts when text files are sent to it. When ps or dvi files are sent it does nothing. I am using the ljet4l-filter but otherwise changed nothing in my printcap which worked fine with a

HP printer and printcap (cont.)

Thanks very much for your help. I am using magicfilter and from what I heard in the list, people think it might be slightly better, it has worked for my bubblejet anyway. In the last few minutes I managed to print dvi files by using the dvihp command. However the most important thing for me is

magifilter problems

I have a pretty strage problem with my new printer. I have a HP 6L with the latest version of magicfilter from hamm When I try to print anything but text and pcl files nothing happens. I have gs-alldin installed. If however, I process ps files with the same exact options as in the filter I am

processes after exit from X

Hi, A while back I send an email to the effect that X processes survive X and eat up huge amount sof CPU time. IN my case it is the FVWMbuttons. Other people said that happened on their compuiters too. I am using 3.3.1-1 and haven't moved to 3.3.1-2 yet but I was wondering if there is a script

libc5 to libc6

Hi, A friend wants to upadate from libc5 to 6 . I have done that some time ago and can't rember the exact order . Can somebody let me know of the http address for libc5 tp libc6 HOWTO ? Thanks George

Re: undeletable file

I had an examople of such behaviour a while back. It occured for some files in a mounted dos filesystem. If it is not a ext2 filesystem could you be mounting it read only ? (come to think of it maybe it is ext2 and mounted read only as well ) Just a thought On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Ken

kernel warning

Hi, I got a new message from my kernel today: Dec 4 13:22:07 garfield kernel: Warning: dev (03:01) tty-count(1) != #fd's(2) in do_tty_hangup anybody knows what this is ? Thanks George

e2fsprogs

Hi, How does one move to the libc6 e2fsprogs without using force in dpkg ? I tried installing commer2g and dpkg tried removing e2fsprogs. How does go about upgrading ? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill

Re: Building Kernel for Sound

Try the make-kpkg package. Then make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision (version nunber) buildpackage in /usr/src/linux and dpkg -i kernel-imagedeb and you are done It is much simpler than the standard procedure George

Re: Upgrade bo- hamm, Problems !

It looks there is some trouble with the gpm daemon. See if it is running and try killing it to see whether it makes any difference. George On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Sindelfingen Office wrote: ~ Hi there. during the weekend i upgraded my system from 1.3.1-XYZ to hamm (using the frozen- tree

where is slink ?

Hi all, I have been trying for a number of days now to find a site that contains slink as I am looking for new packages such as apt to try them out but can't seem to find it. Any ideas ?? (www.debian.org seems to have only hamm). George

user can delete kernel images

Hi, Something very strange has happened to my system. I have my kernels in /boot (the usual setup ) with permission 644. I have never touched that after they are created by the kernel-package. I am doing some experiments concerning security. So I tried as a user with no root privileges and no

user can delete kernel images (cont)

Following to my previous email I have to say some things. the /boot directory in my machine is drwxrwsr-x 2 root disk 2048 Jun 12 17:58 boot the user who can do that belongs to the disk group but the file which was deleted (/boot/vmlinuz.2.0.0) does not belong to the disk group

Re: Truning off shadowed password file

Use shadowconfig off | on On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Ramon Nieva wrote: Ok, I installed my system (bo) with shadowed. Just for testing purpose, I want to get rid of them, how do I do this? Ramon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

URGENT e2fsprogs problem

I decided to upgrade to e2fsprogs 1.10-17. Mistake.. It wants an newer version of dump which requires libe2p2. I can't find this package anywhere. Can anyone help ?? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College

Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux?

mgp is in the japan site, but it needs vflib = 2.22 I can't seem to find vflib Can anyone help ? Thanks George On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Keita Maehara wrote: From: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Powerpoint equiv. for Linux? Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:07:44 +0200 There's

Anyone using plplot ?

I have installed plplot and plplot-tcl. All went ok. When I try to run pltcl I get the error pltcl: error in loading shared libraries libMatrix.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I can't find the libMatrix.so lib anywhere in my system or in www.debian.org I contacted

is enlightenment 0.14 available as a deb package ?

Hi, I was wondering if enlightenment v. 0.14 has been made available as a debian package. If not, any ideas when it will happen ? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL

kerneld activity

Hi, I a new to this list and to Debian. I have a 2.0.0 kernel and debian 1.2 Yesterday I updated some packages from the unstable tree. The packages were base-passwd bsdutils debianutils dpkg e2fsprogs fileutils and findutils. Today I have noticed by runing pstree that kerneld spawns new

kerneld activity

Hi, I a new to this list and to Debian. I have a 2.0.0 kernel and debian 1.2 Some days ago I updated some packages from the unstable tree. The packages were base-passwd bsdutils debianutils dpkg e2fsprogs fileutils and findutils. I have noticed by runing pstree that kerneld spawns new

LILO query solved

Hi I would like to thank everyone for there help in solving my little problem with lilo. Thanks George --- George

kerneld activity

I have posted this query previously but I got no replies. I am trying again because I think that this might be a bug. Some days ago I noticed after mounting an nfs system that the kerneld process would spawn other kernelds all the time ( sometimes also sh processses ) and then kill them only

Re: kerneld activity

I am sorry I did not mention in my previous email that Ioannis Tambouras send me a suggestion about my problem. He suggested using the kdstat program to see if I could find anything useful Unfortunately, I could not get far with his suggestion. The kdstat program whn run produces the following

Sound module

Hi, I just used kernel-image to update from kernel 2.0.0 to 2.0.27 Everything went fine but the module sound in 2.0.0 does not seem to exist in 2.0.27. Could someone tell what exactly it is for and whether a module exists that replaces it in 2.0.27 ?? Thanks very much

sound module

Hi, Can anyone tell me what is the module that replaces sound.o in the 2.0.27 kernel ?? Thanks very much George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College

syslog question

Hi, I just installed the unstable version on my computer. Everything seems fine bu tthere is one problem . I have my innitab file sending the contents of /tmp/messages to /dev/tty8 . Additionally I have the syslog.conf file sending some messages to /tmp/messages so I can see syslog mesages on

question on dates

Hi, I have a very pressing question and I would be very happy if somebody could give me a clue. I have a commercial psckage installed on my debian system which ( GAUSS for econometric applications ) which takes the date time e.t.c. from the system. Unfortunately, after I upgraded from stable to

query on tk42

Hi, Recently I had a strange problem. I tried to install the program called addressbook from unstable and the installation went fine. However when I tried to run its graphical interface using the command addressbook I got bash: /usr/bin/addressbook: No such file or directory I could't figure

ncpfs module

Hi, I have just installed kernel 2.0.29 from the package kernel-image. All went apparently fine but the problem is that I cannot find the module ncpfs neede to mount netware volumes. As my office is based on netware it is very important for me to have this facility inorder to print and transfer

ncpfs module and kernel recompile

Hi, Following my previous email and the reply on the list I tried to recompile the kernel. The problems I had are as follws I can create the .config file using make config. No problem. Then I run the make-kpkg command from the kernel-package I am in /usr/src/linux which is a symlink for

slight preoblem with man

Hi, Lately I had a slight problem with man. I have man-db v 2.3.10-33 and manpages 1.15-2 installed from unstable. Whenever I install a new package and run man, man says that it updates its database. Lately It produces warnings concerning dangling symlink. The problem seems to concern mainly

Sound support in kernel recompile

Hi, Following the identification of a subtle bug in kernel-package which prefres custom.1.0 instead of custom-1.0 in the command syntax I managed to recompile my kernel succesfully without sound. When I set the sound card option to yes in the .config file my recompile breaks down giving errors

NFS server setup

Hi, I was wondering if there is a package which takes care of the setup of an NFS server or do I have to set up the nfsd nadn mountd daemons manually. If I do have to set them manually will the man pages be sufficient or will I need to take care of details ( for security e.t.c. ) which are not

Kernel panic

Hi, Two days ago I managed to recompile my own kernel. It went roughly OK I only tried it on my office computer today though and there seems to be a problem. I seem to have chosen a wrong option since at a very early stage of booting I get the following error VFS: cannot open root device 03:03

Re: Kernel panic

. Mueller wrote: Thus spake G. Kapetanios ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi George, Two days ago I managed to recompile my own kernel. It went roughly OK I only tried it on my office computer today though and there seems to be a problem. I seem to have chosen a wrong option since at a very early

Re: Kernel panic

On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Pilon wrote: I am getting this message while booting my Linux box: VFS unable to mount root fs on 03:03 Can someone tell me what does it mean? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

kernel free page

Hi, Recently I compiled and installed kernel 2.0.30. Today I got two messages I have never got before garfield kernel: Couldn't get a free page garfield eth0: Memory squeeze, deferring packet Does anyone know what these mean ?? Thanks in advance for any help.

lsof question

Hi, I just tried using the lsof command with the i option to see the network connections. When I used to do that I would get a big list of coennections. Today I got nothing I only got a message about there being no .lsof_garfield cache file. The program created it. I have upgraded a number of

lsof question

Hi, I have investigate my lsof problem a bit further. Just to remind the problem. When I run lsof -i nothing comes up . When I run lsof the network connections come up but instead of getting the normal output with address and the rest I only get sock in the fifith column and nothing from there

Matrox Millenium

Hi , Could someone please tell me the appropriate entries in XF86config for the matrix millenium graphics card ? Thank you George --- George

core dump disable

Hi, I have a commercial package for statistics installed on my debian system. This is primarily for interactive use but because my programs take a long time I run it using the nohup command in the background. The problem is that after the program finishes its calculations and before it exits it

modprobe warning

Hi, Today I upgraded the menu package to 1.3-2 . Since then I get every half minute a syslogd warning saying that modprobe can't locate the char-major-6 module. I have a custom kernel ( 2.0.29 ) and no such module. Anybody can tell me what is going on ??

libc6 question

Hi, I have a quick question about libc6. I see from the email describing the new packages available that many are now built with libc6. Does this mean that I need to have libc6 installed to run these packages. I don't want to install libc6 yet because of possible glitches. Thanks

Staroffice

Sorry for the e-mail which is not strictly on a debain matter, I am looking for the non-commercial version of staroffice. The stardivision www page says that it is available from ftp.gwdg.de However I can't get through. I also checked sunsite and couldn't get it. Anybody know a mirror that has

tetex question

Hi all, My question is more tex oriented but involves knowledge of tetex. Tha is why I am asking the list. The book documentclass creates page headers with the title of the chapter. However, if the title is long the whole thing is meesed up. Is there a way to change that and either hjave no page

enlightnement

Dear All, I would like to change my window manager because I am a bit bored with fvwm2. I have chaecked enlightenment and liked what I saw. Has anayone had experience with installing it? It seems to require alot of libraries which exists as rpm packages but I can't install them using alien. I

Staroffice

Hi all, Sorry for the stupid quiestion but where is the debian package for staroffice ? I can't seem to find it in my nirror. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: StarOffice 4.0 *.deb

After all the discussion I tried to install staroffice 4 as well. I have a slightly out-of-date hamm. I tried installing the net installation all went ok. Then I tried installing it on my directory as a user. The first thing to note is that there is a huge duplication of files. The net

ssh question

Hi all, After some security incident on my network I decided to set up ssh. I think I have figured most things of interest to me out. However, before I had rsh in ascript to start my mail program which is another host through FvwmButtons. Now that I disabled rsh I tried to figure a way to do

Re: ssh question

Thanks for all the replys. The RSA keys method can be made not to ask for anything if you put no passphrase, and that is my question. I can do what I want without a passphrase. But is this safe ?? The man page of ssh-keygen says that if you put no passphrase YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING.

trick in dpkg ; obsolete package

Hi all, I have two questions to ask. One concerns the probelmatic missing package elf-x11r6lib. the package gs-alladin version 4.03-7 depends on this (I know there is a newer version but this is another story ) As the elf-.. package is nowhehre to be found I did the following. I edited the

Re: Printing

Have you considered installing magicfilter ? My HP LJ 6L works fine with the lj4l filter from mgicfilter and the following entry i /etc/printcap lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry :lp=/dev/lp1 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp :af=/var/log/lp-acct :lf=/var/log/lp-errs

printing when network is disconnected

Hi, I ahve an ethernet connection which I will loose shortly.. When I remove all network relatwed init files from /etc/rc4d (my runlevel for no network ) the system boots up ok but when the printing init file runs it hangs the system. Any help ? George

Modem recommendation

Hi all, I am switching from ethernet to modem (end of school days) and I would be grateful about suggestion for a good external modem that works well under Debian 2.0. TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill

Is the 8Mb ATI expert 98 AGP 2x graphics card supported ?

Hi all, The subject says it all. Is this card supported by Linux ? If not what can be done ? Any suggestions are very welcome TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL

ISDN question

Hi, I have the ooportunity to have an ISDN line instead of modem at my home. I was wondering whether having an ISDN connection is straighforward with debian ? there is a package in hamm called isdnutils. However, what I found on the net was a FAQ (rather old) for a package called isdn4linux.

question on connecting two computers

Hi, I am looking for info on how to connect two PCs running linux outside of a network. I.e. I want to be able to access information on both computers fron both computers (nfs e.t.c.) Is there a manual explaining the details? Any other source of info ? Thanks George

PPP, host lookup failure and related questions

Hi all, I have moved from an ethernet connection to ppp. I have a couple of questions. I would really appreciate some help 1) pppd comes up on boot fine and I can telnet to a remote host as long as I use the ip numeric address. When I use the word address e.g. cus.cam.ac.uk instead of 131 I

xdm not working

Following an earlier email concerning failure to look up a host adress which also prevented xdm from running I have included my ISP nameserver address in /etc/resolv.conf. Now xdm starts, I log in and the system waits before starting the window manager for some time I still havent waited long

URGENT!!! ROOT PARTITION DELETED

Hi all, I was having problems with the network so I deided to use the rescue disk to configure my machine with no network. By mistake (big mistake !!!) I chose to initialise the root partition rather than mount a previously initialised partition. The hard disk did not work a lot but my root

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