Linux-Misc Digest #29, Volume #25 Mon, 3 Jul 00 04:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: What is foobar, or foo bar, or whatever...?? (moonie;))
Re: FTP as root, how to? (Ethan A Merritt)
Re: We are selling software ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mirroring ide disk (Karlheinz Boehme)
Re: No eth0:0 alias in routing table (Karlheinz Boehme)
Re: FTP as root, how to? (Scott Brewster)
Help:Problem Installing RH6.2 from Harddisk ("Eric Miao")
E-term prob (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Re: kppp amd redhat ("Genilda O. de Araujo")
Re: newsreader for Linux? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: only 64 of 128MB RAM detected ("Farhan Ahmad")
-Patition table damage - ("Lotto Alessandro")
compiling gnumeric (David Grogan)
Re: Help:Problem Installing RH6.2 from Harddisk (Homer Jay)
Re: -Patition table damage - (Eric)
Re: Setting the Password Length (Eric)
no fat32 in RH6.2 ?! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: NC or Midnight Commander: which came first? ("Jeff Malka")
Re: no fat32 in RH6.2 ?! (bob niederman)
auto login ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,nf.comp.linux
Subject: Re: What is foobar, or foo bar, or whatever...??
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 00:49:40 -0400
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, Joachim Feise wrote:
>The Jargon File, aka The New Hacker's Dictionary defines it here:
>http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/foo.html
>
>Richard wrote:
>>
>> F*&%ed Up Beyond All Recovery - FUBAR
>>
>> Hendrix wrote:
>>
>> > Hi foobarians,
>> >
>> > I've heard so many linux sites, books, and even email messages that
>> > contain this phrase...??? What the heck is foo bar...???? The weird
>> > thing is that it also makes its presence in the movie "Saving Private
>> > Ryan", but they never define the term... Hmmm..... Ha...
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > --
>> > Trevor Penney,
>> > A+, Network+ Certified
>> > ----------------------
>> > That's alright, I still got my guitar...
FUBAR: Fucked Up Beyond All Repair!
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ethan A Merritt)
Subject: Re: FTP as root, how to?
Date: 3 Jul 2000 04:29:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm setting up the new machine and want to move stuff off the
>old machine. I have them networked. I can FTP to and from
>in my personal accounts. I can't move things from one root
>account to the other. I agree this makes security sense but
>what can I do to enable this for a day or so until I get the
>new machine set up?
>
You could install ssh, which is not a bad idea in any case, and
then use scp rather than ftp to copy the files.
For most purposes you should be able to log in as yourself,
su to root, then use ftp with your own normal user access on the
remote send while retaining root write-access on the local end.
This doesn't help if the remote file you want is readable only
by root, but there aren't so many of those.
-EAM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Re: We are selling software
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 04:50:46 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.system Richard Vanstory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| We are selling software
| for lowest price in the world (40$-140$)
I've seen prices a LOT lower.
--
| Phil Howard - KA9WGN | My current websites: linuxhomepage.com, ham.org
| phil (at) ipal.net +----------------------------------------------------
| Dallas - Texas - USA | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Karlheinz Boehme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: mirroring ide disk
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:35:12 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Marcos,
once I tried the following started by a cron job early in the
morning :
dd -if=/dev/sda -of=/dev/sdb
This made an exact copy of (SCSI) drive A to drive B.
Most important thing was, that drive B was NOT mounted into drive
A's file system. When I unplugged drive A the system came up without
any probs on drive B (besides the fscheck during bootup). The second
drive was exactly the geometry as the first one. I don't know if it
will work with your configuration, but I think it should.
Be aware that this solution only works for backup purposes where you
want to keep downtime short for a server without too much loss of
data.
Marcos Lloret wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> anybody knows how to make a mirroring ide disk in RH6?? i have
> already installed all the system in a 8Gb ide disk and i want to
> configure a mirroring with a disk of 13Gb.
> how can i do it??
>
> thanks,
>
> marcos
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Karlheinz Boehme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: No eth0:0 alias in routing table
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:26:32 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
the route command shows the routing tables related to *physical*
devices.
So if you set up an alias like 'eth0:0', this means, in your case, that
the packets for subnet 10.0.0.0 have indeed to be routed to the physical
device eth0, even if this was bound i.e. to 192.168.1.0, because the
packets have to be sent to the same netword card anyhow.
"Thomer M. Gil" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know why aliases do not appear in the routing table? Strange
> enough, /proc/net/aliases does not exist either. Yes, I did compile the
> kernel (2.2.14) with IP_ALIAS. And yes, I did try to manually add eth0:0 to
> the routing table.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomer
>
> Output of ifconfig:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:4C:5D:1B
> inet addr:<*snip*> Bcast:<*snip*> Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:5165 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:5184 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:10 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0xf880
>
> eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:4C:5D:1B
> inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0xf880
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Output of route -n:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> <*snip*> 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
> <*snip*> 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 <*snip*> 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The eth0 in the 10.0.0.0 should be eth0:0.
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From: Scott Brewster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP as root, how to?
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 05:07:34 GMT
There is a file in /etc called ftpusers (I think - dont have ftp set up
at the moment so cant verify name). I dont remember exactly how this
file works - but it should be pretty easy to figure out. If root is in
the file and you can not ftp, remove (or comment) root from the file.
If root is not in the file and you cannot ftp, add root. When you are
done, be sure to put everything back to the original settings.
scott
Robert Love wrote:
>
> I'm setting up the new machine and want to move stuff off the
> old machine. I have them networked. I can FTP to and from
> in my personal accounts. I can't move things from one root
> account to the other. I agree this makes security sense but
> what can I do to enable this for a day or so until I get the
> new machine set up?
>
> I have both machines at home, networked together but no outside
> connection without some work on my part so I don't see it as
> a security risk.
>
> Thanx for all advice.
>
> --
> Bob
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From: "Eric Miao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help:Problem Installing RH6.2 from Harddisk
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:03:26 +0800
I spend much time downloading the entire
RPMS and base directory of RedHat6.2.
I am sure the directory structure is correct
as what RedHat demands. The boot disk
does work, and I encountered the problem
when the setup program was gonna reading
the package informations, it got a signal 11
and aborted. It does not give any more
information. I would like to know what
can this problem be caused by.
Any kind help is appreciated!
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Subject: E-term prob
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 05:18:14 GMT
Running e-term under KDE, how do I save the e-term settings?
I select a background and then select "Save current settings" but when
opening it the next time I still have the boring black background.
M.
--
Martin Skj�ldebrand
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sys admin, web designer, tech writer
Hungry? Visit http://www.bahnhof.se/~chimbis/tocb
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From: "Genilda O. de Araujo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: kppp amd redhat
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 16:58:44 -0300
Hi!!
Today I was reading the documentation of my distribution of Linux (it's
a brazilian distribuition named Conectiva, based on RedHat) and I found
something that can be helpful for you.
I'm not sure if its going to work, but try to give root permition to
kppp using:
[root@localhost]# chmod a+s /usr/sbin/pppd
I hope it can help you.
I'm new user of Linux and I'm still trying to set up my computer. I
have a winmodem pctel and I couldn't make it work yet. If you know how to
do it or if you know someone that can help me, please let know...
Thanks....
Genilda.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu nas not�cias de
mensagem:8jlsmh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi all, I just installed RH6.2 update-2 on my machine (KDE option with GUI
> intallation) and the first thing I've noticed is thakppp can only be run
by
> root.When I try to run kppp as a user it compalins that the server refuses
> to connect to 0:0 or something to that effect. As far as I can see there
is
> no permissions problem kppp is 777.
> Does anyone know how to fix that?
>
> Thanks,
> -----
> Ramin Sina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.concentric.net/~rsina
> The state of education in this country would have been
> in much better shape had we emphasized less prayers in
> schools and taught more mathematics in churches and synagogues.
>
>
>
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newsreader for Linux?
Date: 02 Jul 2000 20:51:38 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards) wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>Is there a newsreader available for Linux? I get the news
>>files via UUCP would like to read them in Linux instead of
>>DOS. Thanks.
>
>slrn is the best newsreader for Linux:
>
> http://www.slrn.org/
>
>Don't let anybody tell you any differently, and remember to
>configure it to use the jed editor in mail-mode as the text
>editor for composing posts.
>
> http://space.mit.edu/~davis/jed/
>
>Oh, and mutt is the definitive MUA.
Try using XEmacs or GNU-Emacs and the gnus macro package for
reading news and email, and you will quickly toss the slrn/mutt
combo into the past history bin. There really isn't any
comparison.
Floyd
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: "Farhan Ahmad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: only 64 of 128MB RAM detected
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 10:50:23 +0500
Reply-To: "Farhan Ahmad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Try booting your linux with:-
linux mem=128M
at the lilo boot prompt.
Then check your lilo.conf file whether the changes have been made to it, if
not change the last line to:-
append="mem=128M"
to make it permanent, save the file and run lilo.
I hope this solves your problem.
Regards,
Crush2.
Dennis Jarecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Her is part of my lilo.conf file. The last line is what you want.
Instead of
> 80M put 128M.
>
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hdb1
> read-only
> append="mem=80M"
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Floris Hammer wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I've got 128 mb RAM, but linux detects only 64.
> >I heard that I can solve this by editing lilo.conf, but I don't know
> >which option I have to use.
> >
> >I've already looked trough the docs, but I can't find anything about
> >it...
> >
> >please help,
> >
> >Floris
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From: "Lotto Alessandro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: -Patition table damage -
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 05:57:36 GMT
Hi,
(
I have already write at this newsgroup for the same problem:
--VFS: Unable to mount root-- Help!
but i think that the damage at the partition table is fundamental.
)
I have used from win95 the utility "esplore2fs" to view the ext2
filesystem (hda3).
When I tried to copy a large file (18Mb) from linux in win95 with
explore2fs i had a system crash
due to insufficient space in /dev/hda1 (explore2fs work very well, all this
is my fault)
I have do great damage at the partition table.
fdisk says:
- all the partition has different physical/logical endings:
- all the partition does not end on cylinder boundary
- partition1 overap partition2, partition3, partition4
- total allocated sector 1952874772 greater than the maximun 4124736
- etc etc .....
I can boot in win95 but i can't boot in my linux partition.
My computer has:
- 2G
- 32Mb
- AMD 166
- Win95 (1G)
- Linux RedHat 6.1 (1G)
My computer has 4 partitions:
- /dev/hda1 Win95, FAT32 (O.S. partition)
- /dev/hda2 Win95, FAT32
- /dev/hda3 Linux Native
- /dev/hda4 Linux Swap
For recover the partition table ?!?
Thank'you.
Lotto Alessandro (Italy)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David Grogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: compiling gnumeric
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 02:34:02 -0400
I am trying to compile gnumeric 0.56 and am having trouble. I am
running Mandrake 7.0 with a 2.2.16 kernel. In the gnumeric README, it
says that I need
gnome-libs-1.0.57
gnome-print-0.20
gnome-xml-1.8.7
libglade-0.13
So I went and found these rpms and installed them. I installed
gnome-libs-1.0.58 because I couldnt find 1.0.57 and figured they would
be backwards compatible. When I do the ./configure, I get this error
checking for gnome-config... no
checking for gnomeConf.sh file in /usr/local/lib... not found
configure: error: Could not find the gnomeConf.sh file that is generated
by gnome-libs install
I can't find gnome-config or gnomeConf.sh anywhere on my system or my
mandrake cd. Can anyone tell me why this isn't working and how I should
go about fixing it? Thanks a lot.
David
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From: Homer Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help:Problem Installing RH6.2 from Harddisk
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 06:44:38 GMT
> I spend much time downloading the entire
> RPMS and base directory of RedHat6.2.
> I am sure the directory structure is correct
> as what RedHat demands. The boot disk
> does work, and I encountered the problem
> when the setup program was gonna reading
> the package informations, it got a signal 11
> and aborted. It does not give any more
> information. I would like to know what
> can this problem be caused by.
The sig11 can indicate bad ram or, far less often, a bad motherboard.
You can download memtest86 to thoroughly test your RAM. If it is good
then something else is happening. If the motherboard is bad I would
guess you'd get other problems as well and I hear that this is very
rarely the cause anyway. I suggest two things:
1) Verify all the files are the correct size. FTP was not designed
to download multiple files. Strangely, we _all_ use it for that
anyway. (You'd think we'd have come up with a better way, but nooooo.)
2) Check you ram with memtest86.
You will want to write a shell script or download a utiltiy to check
the file sizes for you. Doing this yourself would just take way too
long. You might also try turning off your cache memory. I.e., from
GCC-HOWTO:
In short, it's the pickiest RAM tester
commonly available. If you can't duplicate the bug --- if it doesn't
stop in the same place when you restart the compilation --- it's
almost certainly a problem with your hardware (CPU, memory,
motherboard or cache).
You could try pulling some of your memory to see if it works then,
but the memtest86 should detect any problems and make that unecessary
(unless a prolem _is_ found). You might try checking redhat's
bugzilla archive. I located a problem with installation that way
once. I hope it works out for you.
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,linux.redhat
From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: -Patition table damage -
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 06:54:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
if you have written down the partition-boundaries on paper (which is a
wise thing to do, although hardly anyone ever does this) you can restore
the partitions with the use of fdisk. If you haven't, (shame on you!)
you can try gpart which scans your HDD in search for partitions. There
may be some other proggies that can do the same for you, search the web.
Eric
Oh yeah, create a follow-up if you crosspost
Lotto Alessandro wrote:
>
> Hi,
> (
> I have already write at this newsgroup for the same problem:
> --VFS: Unable to mount root-- Help!
> but i think that the damage at the partition table is fundamental.
> )
>
> I have used from win95 the utility "esplore2fs" to view the ext2
> filesystem (hda3).
> When I tried to copy a large file (18Mb) from linux in win95 with
> explore2fs i had a system crash
> due to insufficient space in /dev/hda1 (explore2fs work very well, all this
> is my fault)
>
> I have do great damage at the partition table.
>
> fdisk says:
> - all the partition has different physical/logical endings:
> - all the partition does not end on cylinder boundary
> - partition1 overap partition2, partition3, partition4
> - total allocated sector 1952874772 greater than the maximun 4124736
> - etc etc .....
>
> I can boot in win95 but i can't boot in my linux partition.
>
> My computer has:
> - 2G
> - 32Mb
> - AMD 166
> - Win95 (1G)
> - Linux RedHat 6.1 (1G)
>
> My computer has 4 partitions:
> - /dev/hda1 Win95, FAT32 (O.S. partition)
> - /dev/hda2 Win95, FAT32
> - /dev/hda3 Linux Native
> - /dev/hda4 Linux Swap
>
> For recover the partition table ?!?
> Thank'you.
>
> Lotto Alessandro (Italy)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting the Password Length
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 06:56:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robert Love wrote:
>
> Have RH 6.2 and formerly used Linuxconf to be able to set the
> length of the password. This doesn't work anymore. When I
> to set my customary 5 char password it is rejected as too
Annoying, isn't it :-)
You can always ignore this message if you set the password as root
syntax is `passwd USERNAME`
and all passwords will be accepted, you'll only get warnings
Eric
> short. Don't tell me to use a longer password. That machine
> is not on the network.
>
> What is the new RH way to configure password policies?
>
> --
> =============================================================
> | Support Signature Minimalism |
> =============================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: no fat32 in RH6.2 ?!
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 07:19:06 GMT
Hi,
I was trying to mount my Win98 partitions in RedHat6.2 and, to my
biggest surprise, I was told that the kernel does not support fat32.
(Mandrake7.0, that I used before, supported it). What should I do?
Thanks
WRoot
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Before you buy.
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From: "Jeff Malka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NC or Midnight Commander: which came first?
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 22:01:11 -0400
I thought so but since I am new to the Unix world I was not sure. It does
not have all the capabilities of NC though. Things like Alt F7 to search,
etc.
Thank you.
--
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dmitri V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > As a newbie to Linux (and an old fan of Norton Commander) I was
delighted to
> > find MC on my distribution. I was curious though: which is the clone of
> > which? That is which one came first?
> >
>
> Obviously Norton Commander was the first. MC was written in 1994 (as far
> as I remember its story), while I worked with NC back in mid-eighties.
>
> Good lick.
>
> Dmitri
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From: bob niederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: no fat32 in RH6.2 ?!
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 02:58:31 -0500
Try modprobe vfat. If that fails, you may need to recompile. Also,
these (fat and vfat) should have been installed automatically by kmod, I
think.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to mount my Win98 partitions in RedHat6.2 and, to my
> biggest surprise, I was told that the kernel does not support fat32.
> (Mandrake7.0, that I used before, supported it). What should I do?
>
> Thanks
>
> WRoot
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: auto login
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 07:50:54 GMT
Hi,
I want Linux (Redhat) to log me in automatically (in getty7) when I boot
up. How can I acomplish this?
Thanks a bunch
Wroot
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