Linux-Misc Digest #290, Volume #24 Thu, 27 Apr 00 09:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Config Internal Modem on Mandrake (Richard)
Re: Domain not bound....Please help (Koos Pol)
Re: microsoft word on linux (Shaun McDonough)
Re: fetchmail probs? (William Park)
Re: microsoft word on linux ("Al @Work")
Re: Newbie question on installing linux ("Al @Work")
Re: Linux newbie + Web server (Neil)
Re: Partition Howto (Robert Heller)
Re: Domain not bound....Please help (Neil)
Re: microsoft word on linux (Neil)
Re: Linux (Neil)
Connections dropping off ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
does exist how-to about mirroring under Linux? (zenek)
Re: LILO and 1024-Cilinder limit (Frank Elsner)
Re: time setting itself? (Michael Jarrells)
Security ("ed johnson")
Re: Kernel + Harddisk ----- help ??? (Christopher Broussard)
DHCP -- > W3.11 ("Armando Duarte")
Re: LILO and 1024-Cilinder limit ("Peter T. Breuer")
The commands who, users, finger don't work (Marcel Nihon)
HELP! boot from cdrom (Linus Tolduso)
Re: XFree86 4.0 rpms ("T.E.Dickey")
HOW-TO: Deny Incoming Email from Specific Domains (Don Stafford)
Should I ignore bootps/bootpc packets? (Thomas Boggs)
Re: time setting itself? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Config Internal Modem on Mandrake
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:30:06 GMT
Yes its a winmodem
Alexis Bilodeau wrote:
>
> Richard wrote:
> >
> > I have just installed Linux mandrake but could configure my internal
Modem.
> > Help will be appreciated
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
> In order to get efficient help from here, you should provide your
> modem's brand and model.
> Is it a winmodem?
> --
> Alexis Bilodeau
> eMagiK Technologies
> 819.371.9273
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Koos Pol)
Subject: Re: Domain not bound....Please help
Date: 27 Apr 2000 10:37:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:46:30 GMT, Jafery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Hi there,
|
| I have an error message ...YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN : Domain not bound
| what does it mean and how to fix it?
It means that you NIS client couldn't connect to the NIS server.
If you want it to, check if rpc is running. That is usually the culprit.
BTW, I suspect this question to be asked and answered alreasy several times.
You may want to learn how to use Deja.
Koos Pol
======================================================================
S.C. Pol - Systems Administrator - Compuware Europe B.V. - Amsterdam
T:+31 20 3116122 F:+31 20 3116200 E:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check my email address when you hit "Reply".
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From: Shaun McDonough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: microsoft word on linux
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 04:50:43 -0600
On 26 Apr 2000, Neil wrote:
> Eugenio Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > Is there a program that allows me to view (not necessarily edit)
> > a microsoft word document under Linux?
>
> Word Perfect for Linux, I believe, can open and view Word documents.
> I read today in a trade publication that it can actually save documents
> as .doc. Of course, WP does cost money. If you are looking for
> free software that does this then I am not sure what to suggest.
>
> --
>
> Neil
>
>
You might try Star Office from Sun Microsystem. It's free and can be
downloaded from Sun's web page. I've read that it can read and write M$
Word files.
Shaun
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From: William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fetchmail probs?
Date: 27 Apr 2000 05:03:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant@nowhere.> wrote:
>> You need to enable verbose mode in fetchmail, then look at the
>> log messages it generates to see where the problem happens.
> Hey;
> Thanks for the response. I did enable the verbose mode, that's what
> told me that fetchmail was hanging while reading the first message. I
> think I've confirmed that it's a sendmail issue as I tried out the -m (mda)
> option, bypassing sendmail, and it worked. It's a bit of a kludge, but
> at least I have access to my email now.
> Yet another chance to argue with sendmail - Oooh, boy!
> Thanks again for the response.
> Doug
Try upgrading to the latest 'fetchmail'. Long ago, my 'fetchmail'
tended to hang when downloading an email whose domain name cannot be
resolved by 'sendmail'. Or, you can configure 'sendmail' to accept all
emails without domain lookup,
FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)dnl
is what you want.
--William
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From: "Al @Work" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: microsoft word on linux
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:37:46 -0400
Neil wrote:
>
> Eugenio Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > Is there a program that allows me to view (not necessarily edit)
> > a microsoft word document under Linux?
>
> Word Perfect for Linux, I believe, can open and view Word documents.
> I read today in a trade publication that it can actually save documents
> as .doc. Of course, WP does cost money. If you are looking for
> free software that does this then I am not sure what to suggest.
>
> --
>
> Neil
Neil,
You can get a FREE copy of WordPerfect for LINUX here:
http://linux.corel.com/products/linuxproducts_wp8_download.htm
Good luck..
Al
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From: "Al @Work" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie question on installing linux
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:41:46 -0400
Phil Mossop wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am thinking of installing Linux (probably Mandrake) on to my system. I am
> currently running Win98 with 3 relatively same size partitions, C: D: and
> E:. I am thinking of making E: for Linux and keeping the other two for
> Win98. I do not want to totally remove Windows (just yet), but want to be
> able to choose which OS to use at startup.
>
> Some questions:
>
> 1. Do you think there are any conceptual problems with this?
>
> 2. I have an nVidia TNT2 32Mb graphics card and have heard of some problems
> with this under Linux. Will I be in for any surprises if I don't actually
> want to play 3d games just yet, but just get Linux running on my system?
>
> I am relatively new to Linux and Unix on a PC, but have a decent back ground
> in Unix with X-terminals.
>
> TIA
Phil,
In addtion to Peter's comments, I suggest that if you have the budget
resources that you install LINUX on a seperate hard drive. That way you
can play with it all you want to, uninstall, reinstall, try things out,
etc. without any possible damage to the Win98 system. Plus, when you
decide to pull the plug on Windows, you can simply pull out the hard
drive, etc.
Al
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux newbie + Web server
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:14:05 +0100
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 07:30:04 GMT, ram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to set up a web server on Linux, however, I am a newbie to both. Is
>there any suggestion for the distribution of the OS and web server.
Apache for a start - www.apache.org
You may want a version of apache which has mod_perl, and perhaps php (see
www.php.net).
Apache should be availble as an RPM package for your distribution, and more than
likely you'll be offered a choice of apaches or a choice of modules.
Neil
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Howto
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:12:20 GMT
Answer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:01:59 -0400, wrote :
A> I've just read something that I found intersting in it.
A>
A> "With ext2, Partitioning decisions should be governed by backup
A> considerations and to avoid external fragmentation from different file
A> lifetimes.
A>
A> Files have lifetimes. After a file has been created, it will remain
A> some time on the system and then be removed. File lifetime varies
A> greatly throughout the system and is partly dependent on the pathname
A> of the file."
A>
A> What does that mean?
A> If I don't use my ext2 partition for about one years. When I will read
A> the partition one years later, it will be empty?
A>
No. Some files have natural 'lifetimes' based on how the system does
certain things. For example, because of the log rotatation script, all
of the files in /var/log/ have a limited lifetime (5 weeks of existence,
with a name change each week). When you fire up X (eg with the startx
command), a node is created in /tmp/, which goes away when you exit from
the X server -- its lifetime is the same as the lifetime of your X11
session. The files under /var/spool/news/ (if you are running a news
server) have various lifetimes based on news article expiration
settings. Files under /var/spool/lp have lifetimes based on how long it
take to print them.
The longer story to this is:
When partitioning your system for linux you should know that:
1) The files under /var tend to have regular and short lifefiles -- this
file system *will* become fragmented (no way to avoid it) -- for a box
up 24/7, it is a good idea to give /var its own partition. For a news
(or print or mail) server /var/spool or /var/spool/{news,lp,mail} its
own partition (or even separate disk).
2) The files *immediately* under / (/bin, /sbin, /lib, /etc, /boot) are
generally 'immortal' and it is a good idea to make this a small
(64-128meg) partition. The files under /usr are also nearly 'immortal',
but non-essential to boot the system, and it is also a good idea to give
them their own partition as well.
3) /home is totally unpredictable as to file lifetime -- this is where
the (damn) users are doing whatever it is they are doing. They should
get their own partition as well. This partition will also be the least
'stable' (most changing), so will need more frequent backups.
So, the lesson is this: a *good* linux partitioning looks like this:
partition size mount point backups?
dev.
/dev/hda1 64meg / once a month
/dev/hda2 128meg *swap*
/dev/hda3 15.gig /usr once a month
/dev/hda4 *rest of disk* *extended*
/dev/hda5 64meg /var once a month
/dev/hda6 *rest of disk* /home once a day (incremental)
Other options include separate partitions (or disks) for
/var/spool/mail (mail server), /var/spool/news (news server),
/var/spool/lp (print server).
--
\/
Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Domain not bound....Please help
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:15:04 +0100
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:46:30 GMT, Jafery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an error message ...YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN : Domain not bound
>what does it mean and how to fix it?
how, when where ?
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: microsoft word on linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:16:17 +0100
On 26 Apr 2000 23:30:16 PST, Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Word Perfect for Linux, I believe, can open and view Word documents.
>I read today in a trade publication that it can actually save documents
>as .doc. Of course, WP does cost money. If you are looking for
>free software that does this then I am not sure what to suggest.
it can and star office too. Both seem to work very well IMHO.
Neil
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:17:07 +0100
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 04:30:10 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How is Linux different from Windows?
less reboots
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Connections dropping off
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:12:53 GMT
I use samba to access my linux machine on our network. All works fine
except that connections keep closing for a while. Everything wont
connect e.g. web server, telnet and ftp. Once you ping it a few times
it comes back up and all is fine for a while (about 10 mins).
Can anyone suggest a reason while
--
Steven Coutts
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Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: zenek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: does exist how-to about mirroring under Linux?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:36:03 +0200
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From: Frank Elsner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO and 1024-Cilinder limit
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:03:07 +0200
Cobra wrote:
>
> Can I get past this limit by installing LILO in the boot sector instead of
> the MBR? And after that installing a boot manager which then executes LILO?
According to
http://www.freshmeat.com/news/2000/04/26/956756732.html
the limit no longer exists.
-Frank Elsner
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From: Michael Jarrells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: time setting itself?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 08:08:26 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Doug O'Leary wrote:
>
> I had a followup which mentioned the /etc/sysconfig/clock file. I
> updated that; however, despite my followup post to the contrary, my time
> is still resetting itself back about 5 hours. Anyone have any other
> ideas what might be causing that on a Redhat 6.1 release?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Doug
Dear Doug,
Your computer has two clocks. One is maintained by the OS and one is
maintained by the hardware. The OS clock is initialized and synced with
the hardware clock so if you don't update your hardware clock, your OS
clock will eventually reset to the hardware clock. Here is what I do to
keep my clock set:
/usr/sbin/ntpdate bonehed.lcs.mit.edu
/sbin/clock -w
You have to have ntp installed and an Internet connection for this to
work, but you can also set the OS clock using the date command.
Good luck!
--
Michael Jarrells
http://jarrells.cjb.net
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "ed johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Security
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:18:27 +0100
Could someone please explain if there is a simple way to restruct all users
except root from being able to ftp then drop back to any directory they
like. I would like them to only stay within their own ~user area ?????
Thanks for any advice ... PS I'm using redhat
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Christopher Broussard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel + Harddisk ----- help ???
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 08:30:18 -0400
Benson Lei wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using RH Linux V6.1, I re-compiled the kernel, but there is a problem
> when I modify the lilo:
>
> my harddisk's cylinder is greater than the default (1023 ).
>
> How can I do ???
>
> Thank you for your hlep
If you have a big hard drive, it is often recommended to partition it so
that you put a '/boot' partitions on /hda1. It doesn't matter too much for
the others, since Linux doesn't use the BIOS to find other partitions after
it is booted up.
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From: "Armando Duarte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCP -- > W3.11
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:09:31 +0100
Hello,
I have a RedHat 6.2 serving DHCP. With the w95/95 machines everithing is Ok,
but with w3.11 machines, hey get a good IP, but a bad netmask, eg,
10.30.6.150 and 0.0.255.255 ( it's supposed to get 255.255.255.0, like all
the other machines do). Before I had a RedHat 5.2 doing DHCP Server, and all
the machines got good IP/netmask. The smb.conf is the same.
Any ideas?
--
===========================================
Armando Duarte
Centro Hospitalar de Coimbra (http://www.chc.min-saude.pt)
Departamento de Informa��o para a Gest�o
Telef. 351 39 800080
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO and 1024-Cilinder limit
Date: 27 Apr 2000 12:39:29 GMT
Frank Elsner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Cobra wrote:
:> Can I get past this limit by installing LILO in the boot sector instead of
:> the MBR? And after that installing a boot manager which then executes LILO?
No.
: According to
: http://www.freshmeat.com/news/2000/04/26/956756732.html
: the limit no longer exists.
To be exact, it doesn't exist in the new lilo v24.1 IF your bios supports
certain calls. But then it never existed in any sense that I have been
able to credit as a stopper anyway. What was the big deal in putting
the boot image below 1024 cyl, or in using a different loader (e.g. dos)?
Peter
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From: Marcel Nihon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The commands who, users, finger don't work
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:31:48 +0200
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
Hi,
<BR>With Red Hat Linux 6.0, kernel 2.2.5-15, the commands who, users, finger
don't print any output!
<BR>Help appreciated. Thanks in advance.
<PRE>
Marcel Nihon
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Service General d'Informatique (SEGI) Support logiciels
Universite de Liege
Sart Tilman
B26
Tel. : +32(4)366.49.78
4000
Liege
Fax : +32(4)366.29.20
Belgium
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]</PRE>
</HTML>
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From: Linus Tolduso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP! boot from cdrom
Date: 27 Apr 2000 08:50:09 EDT
My floppy controller, it seems is broken on one of my linux machines.
Read and Write functions are ok in both windows and linux, but when it
comes to booting, the floppy just hangs. Strange huh? I haven't tried
re-flashing bios or anything that radical yet, but I really only need to
boot linux so I'd like to use a burnable (re-writeable) cdrom in the
floppy's stead. I have a I have a CD-writer on another machine and
plenty media (write-only and re-writable).
I prefer not to install LILO on this machine, because my kids use it
also. Here's what I've tried so far, but I don't think it is applicable.
All I want to do is replace a boot-floppy (which boots the kernel and
then mount's the root partition call it /dev/hda3 for now) with a
boot-cd. The motherboard's BIOS supports the CD-ROM device as bootable
(a-la- 'El Torito spec).
I read the rather dated README.eltorito (Slackware 7.0) but wasn't sure
how or whether I needed to edit the boot catalog which I created on my
hard drive's filesystem like this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=boot.catalog bs=1024 count=2
I then created a empty directory "boot-cd". I then created the "boot"
sub-directory in it and the put the files "boot.img" (i.e. the kernel)
and "boot.catalog" in it.
Then simply executed mkisofs -b boot/boot.img -c boot/boot/catalog -o
boot.iso .
from the boot-cd directory.
This seems like it should be a fairly simple task, but it is not turning
out that way.
I used mkisofs to create an isofile containing only the kernel I wanted
to boot. I then used rdev on the image to set the root device and root
flags on
this image (file), but that didn't work when I burnt the CD.
Any other thoughts?
TIA,
Linus
(personal replies maybe directed to the listed e-mail by replacing the
'a' in my e-mail with 'y')
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0 rpms
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 12:56:46 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Jim Zubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Need to make a symbolic link from libncurses.so.5 and libpanel.so.5 to
> libncurses.so.4 and libpanel.so.4
no (bad advice, even if you're running Redhat)
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: Don Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HOW-TO: Deny Incoming Email from Specific Domains
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 08:59:31 -0400
HOW-TO QUESTION:
We are running RH 6.1
I need to know how to deny incoming email from specific domains.
I have /etc/mail/access as follows:
domain.com DISCARD
spamdomain.com 550 No SPAM
The 550 line works, in that it disallows the incoming email(s), but
also sends a message back to the sender.
The DISCARD line used to work in version 5, but does not work in
version 6.
I have also copied by /etc/mail/deny file from version 5 to version 6.
It is as follows:
domain.com REJECT
That does not work - and I have build the hashes (.db) for all files.
Any help will be GREATLY appreciated!!
========================================================================
Don Stafford, Director of Information Technologies
UAV Entertainment Corporation
2200 Carolina Place
Fort Mill, SC 29708
803-548-1056 x159 704-940-1056 x159
803-548-2493 - Fax 704-940-3335 (Fax)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 8371791
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From: Thomas Boggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Should I ignore bootps/bootpc packets?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 08:59:32 -0400
I use dhclient to maintain an internet connection to my local network
via a cablemodem. I am using ipchains on my firewall machine. Every so
often, my firewall log shows blocked packets using the bootps and bootpc
protocols. So far I haven't experienced any problems due to blocking
these packets. Is there a reason why I should allow these packets from
the dhcp server to enter?
Thanks,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: time setting itself?
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 13:05:37 GMT
Michael Jarrells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Your computer has two clocks. One is maintained by the OS and one is
>maintained by the hardware. The OS clock is initialized and synced with
>the hardware clock so if you don't update your hardware clock, your OS
>clock will eventually reset to the hardware clock. Here is what I do to
>keep my clock set:
Hi;
Thanks for the response. I thought of the h/w clock as well and rebooted as one
of the earlier tests. The h/w clock is set correctly. Somehow, the OS clock keeps
going back five hours. This is getting annoying!
Thanks for the response.
Doug
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Douglas K. O'Leary
Senior System Administrator
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