Linux-Misc Digest #682, Volume #25 Wed, 6 Sep 00 15:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Fdisk problem with SCSI HD (Beggar)
Re: Linux users please read !!IMPORTANT!! (Andrew Stephenson)
Re: How to get rif of gnome? (John P)
Re: dev-files ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: Syslog problem ("Peter T. Breuer")
newbie and MIME type (Martin Racette)
Re: Samba: Win95 + Win98 (Greg F Walz Chojnacki)
tar to tape >2GB (Crni Gorac)
Re: Scanner (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Talk problem in linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SOUND BALSTER CDROM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need help installing on laptop with network card! (Jonathan Melhuish)
Re: routing question (William W.)
Re: ~user www directories needed (William W.)
Sorry that i wrote an duch letter!! ("TygeR")
dump win98 partition ("Volker Kalms")
mpeg player for linux? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: Amateur Hacker Backdoors Thwarted By Upgrade? ("Bill Cattell")
Install probs (old BIOS, large HD, error message: "device is busy") (Brenden)
Re: routing question (The Darkener)
Re: tar to tape >2GB (-ljl-)
Linux and telephone systems (Bob Brashear)
Before I remove windows from my computer?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,tw.bbs.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Fdisk problem with SCSI HD
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 01:07:32 +0800
Hi,
I have a Segate 18GB Ultra2 SCSI HD, after I "fdisk" it and write the
partition to disk. It work fine without any error message, but the
problem is that when I quit fdisk and enter fdisk again, the partition
table does not change as I modify before.
what's the problem?? Harddisk problem or fdisk problem? It have also
use "cfdisk", but with the same result.
Help!!
Dicky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Stephenson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.network,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Linux users please read !!IMPORTANT!!
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 00 17:03:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8p5qie$qda$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Carlos Benjamin" writes:
> A chicken? Wouldn't it be much better to launch them into the
> water wearing a suit made of live cats tied together?
A bit hard on the cats, wouldn't you say?
--
Andrew Stephenson
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From: John P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get rif of gnome?
Date: 06 Sep 2000 12:15:55 -0500
Fred Nastos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I set the system so that every user has
> fvwm2 running as the default. Right now one particular
> user gets fvwm,
Probably has a ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession file.
> but the other users get gnome. I'd like to change that. Thanks.
What linux distribution are you running? If debian, read
'man update-alternatives', and take action. It looks like it
can be changed on redhat by editing /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients.
I don't know about the other ~ 1E5 distributions.
-John
--
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dev-files
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:20:52 -0500
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jean-David Beyer-valinux quoth:
~~ Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 08:41:17 -0400
~~ From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ Subject: Re: dev-files
~~
~~ "Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
~~
~~ > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Jean-David Beyer-valinux quoth:
~~ >
~~ > ~~ Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 06:20:27 -0400
~~ > ~~ From: Jean-David Beyer-valinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ > ~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ > ~~ Subject: Re: dev-files
~~ > ~~
~~ > ~~ "Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
~~ > ~~
~~ > ~~ > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, m quoth:
~~ > ~~ >
~~ > ~~ > ~~ Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 15:21:35 +0100
~~ > ~~ > ~~ From: m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
~~ > ~~ > ~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ > ~~ > ~~ Subject: dev-files
~~ > ~~ > ~~
~~ > ~~ > ~~ Hi,
~~ > ~~ > ~~
~~ > ~~ > ~~ i backuped my linux but i forgot to save my /dev - directory.
~~ > ~~ > ~~ when i installed a minimal installation of my distribution, it installed
the
~~ > ~~ > ~~ devs - package and i got several dev-files back.
~~ > ~~ > ~~ then I extract my saved files and overwrite the new installation.
~~ > ~~ >
~~ > ~~ > There really should be no need to back up dev.
~~ > ~~
~~ > ~~ I think so. What if your hard drive(s) really crashed, so you bought and
installed
~~ > ~~ a new one? All the MKDEVs you did in the past are probably forgotten. If you
have
~~ > ~~ them backed up, you should be able to restore them.
~~ > ~~
~~ >
~~ > I may have jumped the gun on this comment (used to Solaris), however
~~ > if you are doing a complete reinstall, then I would think a half-way
~~ > decent install program should detect your hardware and do a MKDEV
~~ > as approriate (they may or may not, I don't know). If for some reason
~~ > you do not have to do a reinstall, then I would think if easier just
~~ > to MAKEDEV hde, than to restore from tape (or whatever backup medium
~~ > you use). Again, on linux I am used to single drive systems, so I
~~ > don't know for sure if installation programs detect extra drives or
~~ > not... On Solaris, I am used to 'drvconfig; disks' to add hard drives,
~~ > so I may be spoiled on this point. :-(
~~
~~ On my old machine, I have a floppy-tape drive on its own floppy controller. The
floppy
~~ controller uses the same IRQ as the regular floppy controller.
~~
~~ 1.) How would an install program detect that?
~~ 2.) How would it know that the device hidden behind the controller is a floppy tape
~~ drive?
~~ 3.) How would it know that as a floppy tape device, it needed a different set of
entries
~~ in /dev than regular tape drive?
~~
~~ Lacking answers to those questions, how would it know what MAKEDEVs to use?
That is why I said I am somewhat spoiled by Sun on this subject.
I am not an expert on this subject. Like I said, I do not have
unusual hardware needs on my Linux machine, so I made a guess.
Regards,
anm
--
Andrew N. McGuire
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Syslog problem
Date: 6 Sep 2000 17:20:32 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Sylvain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Details on the subject ?
: /dev is writable (even with a ro root fs) and syslogd creates its socket
something, probably pam or login, will try and change the ownership of
/dev/console and friends, which can't be done if /dev is readonly.
: (/dev/log). System calls does not return any error !
Peter
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From: Martin Racette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie and MIME type
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 17:35:11 GMT
Hi guys,
I tried to install REALAUDIO from the RPM file that is on the web=20
site, and Linux simply close my KDE, I had to login again but ever=20
since I get errors that all of my MIME files for AUDIO are either not=20
valid or do not exists.
So I went with the menu in KFM to look at the MIME for the audio, and=20
indeed they have all disappeared.
How can I restore them to their original format (information)
Thank you in advance
Merci a l'avance
Martin
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From: Greg F Walz Chojnacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba: Win95 + Win98
Date: 6 Sep 2000 17:36:12 GMT
I'm still not entirely clear on this biz. I don't _want_ to be prompted for a
password to use the printer.
Greg
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From: Crni Gorac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tar to tape >2GB
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 17:28:04 GMT
Is it possible to use tar to backup files on tapes with capacity >2GB.
If yes, what would be the command?
Thanks.
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Scanner
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 10:47:43 -0700
Martin,
do you know about this?
http://www.mostang.com/sane/man/sane-hp.5.html
Andrey
Martin Racette wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I know that SANE was installed when I did the installation of Mandrake
> 7.1 , since I selected everything that was available to install, but I
> can't find out how to use it with my HP-5p, and I know for a fact that
> this scanner is supported since its a SCSI, and is hook-up an dpowered
> up
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Merci a l'avance
>
> Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Talk problem in linux
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 11:55:19 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] did eloquently scribble:
> Hi,
> In trying to use "talk" on my Mandrake 7.0 system I got an error
> message that said: "[Error or read from talk daemon:Connection refused
> (111)]". Can anyone explain to me what that error is and how it can be
> fixed?
1> Are you using inetd?
If so, you need to uncomment the line in /etc/inetd.conf what causes the
talk daemon to start. Then restart inetd.
If you're not running inetd, then have you started the talkd daemon?
If not, start it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SOUND BALSTER CDROM
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:18:19 +0100
Francis Oyakhire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> I have a mandrake 6.1 running I took
> out my ide cdromn and tried to replace it with a soundblaster 16 card and
> mistibushi cdrom I was wondering if there is a way to install the cdrom
> without reinstalling the OS
> :
Check to see whether you have the sbpcd module installed on your hard disk.
If it is, edit conf.modules (or modules.conf) and add
options sbpcd sbpcd=0x230,1
Then try
modprobe sbpcd
If it fails, you may need to change 0x230,1 to 0x230,0. (or some other
number?)
Another thing you may need (I have a soundblaster CDROM in an old 486) is to
initialise the card with a DOS boot disk before starting linux.
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From: Jonathan Melhuish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Need help installing on laptop with network card!
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:59:06 +0100
I am in a similar situation, except that:
* I already have a Linux box working, with an FTP server installed (and
apparently, working)
* I'm using a Mandrake 7.0 boot disk (made from the CD), but it sounds like
it's identical.
* I'm using a Genius PCMCIA network card, which is compatible with the
pcnet_cs linux driver
* I'm not asked for a "driver disk" when I boot, it just asks me where to
install from
Like Liam, I have a problem, as the Genius card is not listed. I have the
correct driver on my Linux box, but I have no opportunity to load it.
Jon
LRW wrote:
> (My apologies if this appears as a re-post....I waited a couple hours and my
> 1st attempt never showed up in the groups.)
>
> "LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:...
>
> OK, here's the setup.
>
> I have a Win2000-Pro box with the CD-Rom that I'm using for the install.
>
> I'm trying to install RedHat 6.2 on a laptop that's connected to the network
>
> via a 3com PCMCIA card and no CD-Rom.
>
> I tried copying the CD over to the laptop but the laptop is only powerful
>
> enough to run Win95 and won't accept large file names. So I'm leaving the
>
> install CD in the 2000 and hoping to be able to connect to it.
>
> Now, I made an install/boot floppy for PCMCIA card support, and one for NFS
>
> and net support.
>
> Both say after booting up "Insert Driver Disk and press OK".
>
> Of course I try just OK'ing from there, and get "The floppy you inserted is
>
> not a valid driver disk for this release of RedHat Linux." and takes be back
>
> to the driver disk request.
>
> Now, if it's asking for the network card driver disk, all I can find for the
>
> 3Com Ethernet III (3C589D) is from 3Com's site, and it just has Windows
>
> drivers.
>
> So, just for giggles I cancel the request and go on.
>
> It asks for language and country, then asks where the image is coming from:
>
> NFS, FTP, HTTP, or Hard Disk.
>
> Of course HD isn't an option because it's not ON the HD. And even if I
>
> wanted to pull it from an FTP site, when I try that just to see what happens
>
> it asks what network card driver to use. I've tried each of the 3Com's
>
> listed and each time it says the device is busy or unavailable. And to be
>
> honest I don't know what NFS means, but that yields the same result with the
>
> bootnet.img boot disk. With the pcmcia boot disk, it asks for the IP and dir
>
> of the image, but when I put in the IP of the 2000 box, no matter what I try
>
> as the dir (CD_rom drive letter, the share name, etc) it IMMEDIATELY pops up
>
> with a msg saying cannot locate that dir.
>
> So, based on this, anyone have any suggestions as to how to proceed from
>
> here?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Liam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William W.)
Subject: Re: routing question
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:09:12 GMT
In our last episode (Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:06:35 GMT),
the artist formerly known as fred smith said:
>Gentlemen/Ladies:
>
>I've got a home LAN with a Linux box I work on and another one as a
>firewall/ip-masq box connecting to the internet via diald/ppp. All the
>systems on the LAN are set to have the ip-masq box as their default
>gateway.
>
>Now, i'd like to be able to bring up a separate ppp link, from my
>personal Linux box (referred to above as "...box I work on") on a
>directly-attached modem, to my office and for the duration of that
>connection have my default route go out that link and then to revert
>when that connection is brought down.
>
>however I haven't figured out how to do it (it's probably easy for
>those of you who know what you're doing... :-), so any helpful advice
>would be appreciated.
Once you've made your dialup connection, you need to do the following:
route -delete default
route -add default gw a.b.c.d
Where a.b.c.d is the IP address of the gateway machine assigned to you
by your dialip ISP. When you hang up, you need to run the above two
commands again, but replace a.b.c.d with the IP address of your LAN
gateway.
The only twist that makes this a little bit complex is that route must
be run as root, which might complicate scripting this task to automate
it a bit.
Cheers.
--
It is pitch black.
You are likely to be spammed by a grue.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William W.)
Subject: Re: ~user www directories needed
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:09:13 GMT
In our last episode (06 Sep 2000 15:46:52 GMT),
the artist formerly known as LFessen106 said:
>>I am using apache as my web server and i have received requests from users
>>for
>>their own /home/httpd/html/~username directories. How is this achieved
>>whilst giving them cgi-perl, servlets access too.
>>Thanks.
>>K.
>>
>
>Create a subdirectory for them in the default apache directory system, and then
>make a symbolic link between one in their home directory to the one you made
>for them under apache's directory...
>
>For instance, if your apache directory is /home/httpd you'd create a directory
>for charlie as /home/httpd/charlie, and then go to charlie's home directory
>(/home/charlie) and make a symbolic link directory for him to put his html
>files in by doing a 'ln -s /home/httpd/charlie html', which would create a
>directory under his home directory called html - (html would really be a link
>to the /home/httpd/charlie directory but charlie wouldn't know it). He can
>then put his web stuff in his html directory and then view them by going to
>'http://your_server_name_here.whatever/charlie'.
Isn't Apache's standard configuration to treat hostname/~user as a link
to ~user/public_html? If not, it can be set in the Apache configuration
files. That's a much less messy way to do it. Users can then create a
directory called "public_html", set the permisions to least 644, and
they're set.
However, that doesn't solve the problem of giving CGI access. You need
to configure Apache to allow users to run CGI scripts from their own
directories. I haven't done this, but it should be somewhere in the
Apache configuration files too. However, this isn't a good idea, because
scripts run with the permission of the Web server (which is root, if
you've configured Apache badly, or some dedicated user like www if
you've done it right.) In either case, it means that a user's CGI script
can potentially damage files not belonging to the user.
Instead, you should install cgiwrap, which allows the Web server to run
CGI scripts with the UID of the user who owns them. This means that, at
worst, a user's badly-designed CGI program could wipe out, reveal or
otherise compromise the user's own files but not those of anyone else.
In general, you should keep tight control over who can write programs
that the Web server can execute. CGi programs need to be carefully
security-checked, because they can be run by anonymous outside users,
and they *don't* have to be invoked by submitting a Web form -- they can
be directly supplied with any kind of data that the user wants.
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You are likely to be spammed by a grue.
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From: "TygeR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sorry that i wrote an duch letter!!
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:08:31 +0200
I'm sorry for the dutch letter i wrote. I tottally forgot this was an
international news group. so sorry again.
CU
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From: "Volker Kalms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dump win98 partition
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:17:53 +0200
Hi all,
since I have linux 6.2 and also win98 on my PC I would like to use linux
to do a full backup of the win98 partition.
How is it possible to do this and how can I restore the backup after
win98 is totaly messed up and the computer cries for a new installation ???
Since I am not working with linux for a long time it would be greate if
anyone
could give me a hint !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many thanks in advance.
Volker
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: mpeg player for linux?
Date: 6 Sep 2000 18:05:11 GMT
Are there any mpeg players for Linux?
Thx
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From: "Bill Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Amateur Hacker Backdoors Thwarted By Upgrade?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 13:30:35 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (I R A Darth Aggie) wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:52:19 -0400, Wretch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, in
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
snip
>
> Yes and yes. The former makes the later unreliable. Thus wipe-n-load is
> the way to go. That and:
>
> # cat /etc/hosts.allow
> ALL: ALL
I hope you meant;
#cat /etc/hosts.deny (emphasis on the DENY)
ALL: ALL
The only thing I put in hosts.allow are the addresses I want to let in. Everybody
else get "connection refused".
Bill
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From: Brenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install probs (old BIOS, large HD, error message: "device is busy")
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:29:03 GMT
I have an old computer for which i recently bought a new 8 gig HD. Tried to
install it on the Primary IDE channel but it wouldnt boot (eventhough its
reconised in the BIOS setup), though after booting from the original 500mb
HD and running fdisk in DOS it shows the 2nd drive and partitions but you
cant use them (or even use "D:", it wont even do that). Yet when I boot
Win95 I can use them.
The linux installation (Mandrake 7.2 beta, going to try debian next just
incase thats the prob which seems very unlikely) wont run from HD without
booting from a floppy 'cause as mentioned above its inaccessable or
non-existent to DOS it seems. All goes well untill I try to make a linux
partition and write the changes made to the disk, error message
"device/resource is busy".
Comp: pentium 60 Mem: 96 HDs: 500mb primary, master and 8gb secondary
master
Partitions: 500mb HD C:|Boot|500mb|FAT16, 8gb HD E:|1,87gb|FAT16
F:|1,82gb|FAT16 4gb free for Linux native and Swap partition
Installation: All Files are on F, also an ISO on E (havent got the CD just
downloaded it)
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From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: routing question
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:38:29 GMT
....YES! You rule. Zork Rules. =)
> --
> It is pitch black.
> You are likely to be spammed by a grue.
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"I'm Doug, I have greasy hair and no muscles. You're Principal
Wheeler, you have a mustache and you smell like coffee." -The State
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tar to tape >2GB
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:27:47 GMT
In article <8p5uq9$vkc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Crni Gorac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to use tar to backup files on tapes with capacity >2GB.
You might check out this URL:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/star.html
Star currently handles files up to a size of 2 GB and
archives up to 2000000 TB. The maximum file size limitation
of 2 GB may easily be expanded to 8 GB. With a non standard
extension star will handle files up to 200000000 TB.
Regards.
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From: Bob Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and telephone systems
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 13:45:11 -0500
Are there any packages that can control a small office telephone system?
Thanks.
Bob Brashear
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Before I remove windows from my computer??
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 18:38:14 GMT
Before I remove windows from my computer??
I just loaded redhat 6.2 and I am getting ready to remove windows and
become and redhat only man.
I would like to here from other redhat users on with programs I should
have loaded to make the best out of my new OS.
Please email me ASAP with any tips or comments you may have.
I need software to do the following
Burn CD's (audio and data)
Something like office
Something like quickbooks
Email clent
Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
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