Linux-Misc Digest #39, Volume #26 Sun, 15 Oct 00 11:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: MP3 decoder-encoder (myk)
Re: novell print queue access (Reinhardt Behm [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kppp question (repo)
Re: RH 6.2 Email??? (ray)
Re: AVI for LINUX (Bill Clinton)
Re: How can one app crashing bring down whole system? (Tony Lawrence)
Re: How can one app crashing bring down whole system? (Tony Lawrence)
Re: can't get via82cxxx to sing ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
unable to determine module loading: 3c90x instead 3c59x (Armin Wittmann)
Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: novell print queue access (Frank Ranner)
Re: How can one app crashing bring down whole system? (Robert Heller)
Re: How can one app crashing bring down whole system? (Robert Heller)
Re: quake for linux? (Russell Marks)
Re: How can one app crashing bring down whole system? (Robert Kiesling)
Re: Accessing certain sites fails SOLVED. (Clifford Kite)
Can I install Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 from CD-ROM on PCMCIA SCSI? ("E. Smith")
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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 11:16:43 +0100
From: myk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: MP3 decoder-encoder
Ali wrote:
> I`m a looking for an MP3 decoder-encoder, can someone recommend one. I
> would like one with GUI and easy enough to configure. I`ve used audiograbber
> for use in windows so something along these lines would be great.
>
> TIA
>
> Ali
grip orks fine for me (part of the gnome 1.2).
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From: (Reinhardt Behm) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: novell print queue access
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Oct 2000 11:16:27 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (andi smart) writes:
>We have an intranet server with RH6.1 - however we are mainly a Novell
>Netware 4.11 site with our printing being controlled by NDS print
>queues.
>
>Just occasionally I would like to be able to send a print job from our
>Linux server to the printer in the room next door (HP Laserjet 2100TN)
>- is there any way I can send a print task from the linux server to a
>Novell print queue?
>andi smart
>
>"A single open mind, can open any door"
> Sonia Rutstein
There is a package for netware support. It contains ncpmount, nprint etc.
nprint can be used to send a file to the print q.
It works for me at least with Netware 3.xx, did not test it with Netware 4.xx
I just don't know it's name.
Reinhardt Behm, Nauheim, Germany, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: repo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kppp question
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 12:16:02 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I just installed Red Hat 6.2 and have set KDE as my default desktop.
> Kppp works fine running as root but when I try to run it as a user
> it prompts for a root password.
>
> I tried what the docs said, made a kppp.allow and tried a group as well.
>
> Still only root can run kppp. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Neil
The easiest way to beat this is to replace the following line
inside your /etc/pam.d/kppp from:
#auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rootok.so
to
auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_permit.so
save /etc/pam.d/kppp
--
Good Luck
Repo
http://beginnerslinux.saxen.net/
http://beginnerslinux.org/
Linux Red Hat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15 on an i586
12:15pm up 10:35, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.18, 0.21
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 Email???
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:35:23 GMT
ALDEL wrote:
> I have RH-6.2 using Gnome on Pent.1.
> Connect to internet fine.
> Tried Pine, Sendmail, Netscape, but cannot send or receive
> Email. Error msg's "fatal data error" etc.
>
> What is the easiest Email pgm to use with this
> config, and how?
>
> Help really appreciated,
> It took me 83 years to get this dumb.
> Albert, Wa3fib.
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ALDEL)
> -----------------------------------------------------------
WA3FIB DE WA4AJY Al, we don't really have enuff "stuff" here to
know. Usually, email failures are a result of setup issues, the POP
sever and the SMTP server at your ISP have to be set according to the
information provided by them. IF you are certain that this correct, try
Netscape and call your ISP on another line. He can watch you hit the
mail spool, and get you an idea of what is happening. Hang in there, all
this works great for many thousands, it will for you too.
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://raymondjones.net
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From: Bill Clinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AVI for LINUX
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 05:38:49 -0500
I like Main Actor. I think I got it from linuxberg.com.
HTH,
Mike Christenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Zoran P." wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> who knows a AVI-Player for SuSE-Linux ??
>
> xdvplay don't work...
>
> Thanx for help !
> -Zoran-
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can one app crashing bring down whole system?
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 07:16:29 -0400
"D. D. Brierton" wrote:
>
> Thanks for the tip. When you say I should put "savetextmode" in one of
> the startup scripts do you mean one of mine (me qua user) or in one of
> the systen startup scripts?
It really wouldn't matter, just so it gets run.
--
Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can one app crashing bring down whole system?
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 07:24:11 -0400
Hartmann Schaffer wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ...
> >You need to have run "savetextmode" BEFORE you have a problem.
>
> is that part of some package? if not where can i find it?
It sems to be part of Svgalib - rpm doesn't know about it, and
the man page admits to not knowing its origin..
--
Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: can't get via82cxxx to sing
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 11:41:27 GMT
In <h17G5.11553$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/15/00
at 12:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith) said:
>I've got a few OS/2 web pages up, but haven't updated them in
>quite some time.
I got on. It's a great site, the info is still helpful.
>> I'll look for the OS/2 drivers though I suspect after all of
>> this, I'm going to have to buy an addon card if I want my trinity
>> of operating systems up and running.
>I've not used them myself, but I remember hearing they exist. I
>just boot into OS/2 so seldom these days that I've not bothered
>installing them.
You are using Linux? Win2000?
I have Linux and use it a fair amount but my heart still belongs
to my sick baby, OS/2. The Linux interface feels (to me!) clumsy
in comparison.
Ok. I'll see if I can find drivers. Thanks!
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
===========================================================
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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:36:11 +0200
From: Armin Wittmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: unable to determine module loading: 3c90x instead 3c59x
Hi
I am installing a new webserver with SuSE 6.3
Kernel 2.2.13.
I purchased three 3c905C NICs to be inserted additional
to the onboard eepro100 NIC.
With booting, everything is ok but the wrong
module
3c95x
is loaded.
This module recognizes the 3Com NICs but the
driver does not support them correctly. No
network connection works (ping to and from
host).
With eepro100 everyting is fine.
The correct module would be
3c90x
My steps to convince the startup process
to load the module were these:
- remove 3c59x.o from /lib/modules/2.2.1/net
generate a new modules.dep with moddep
- work in /etc/modules.conf (formely /etc/conf.modules).
it looks now like this:
probe 3c59x 3c90x
above 3c59x 3c90x
alias eth0 3c90x
alias eth1 3c90x
alias eth2 3c90x
alias eth3 eepro100
options eth3 options=32
options eth0 media_select=100BASE_TX full_duplex=0
options eth1 media_select=100BASE_TX full_duplex=0
options eth2 media_select=100BASE_TX full_duplex=0
I tried various combinations but nothing worked during normal
boot up. Manually I can shutdown the interfaces deinstall
the module and install the 3c90x without any problem.
The questions:
Where can I get informations how modules are loaded.
I don't think that I have a kerneld running in this
version of SuSE (this fact is mentioned in the manual).
Where does the system find still this 3c59x.o
even I removed it from the directory and renamed it
to "old.3c59x.o.old" in the /root directory?
Most important: How can I succeed to let the kernel
load reliably only the 3c90x module or how can I switch
off the 3c59x module?
I would like to compile a new kernel but I can't choose
the 3c90x.o module in the 'make menuconfig' procedure.
How can I do this?
Do I really need to install the newest 3Com driver?
There is alreay this module in the SuSE distribution
running fine.
Many questions, are there short answers? :-)
Thanks for helping
Armin Wittmann
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Date: 15 Oct 2000 8:57:41 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.2 login is now broken - how to fix?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Robert Masters;
[...]
>>hackers work, wipe the disk clean and reinstall.
RM> This is actually a bit extreme - if you can work out which packages have
RM> been worked over, you can do a forced install of those packages from the
RM> distribution - much less hassle!
Well, we did exactly this that last time we had one compromised, but it
took us about 2 days worth of wandering around to find all the hackers
stuffs from an ADMROCKS rootkit. But we also learned a lot, and the
next one will go quite a bit faster.
My point was, and is, that for someone whose never had to clean up a
hack job, and has to learn as he goes, its going to take 2 days out of
his life. The backup needed data, wipe and re-install is at least a day
quicker.
>>Then goto updates.redhat.com and grab and install *all* the fixes
>>available for 6.2 there.
RM> And that's the next step, along with wiping out any/all spurious user
RM> accounts, and forcing password changes across the board.
Ieeeeyyyuuppp!
RM> Also check for plain-text passwords to other machines in you LAN, and
RM> change them, and check any root-peered machines as well.
That too.
[...]
>>Then hook it up long enough to go get portsentry from www.psionic.com
>>and install it. Once thats in and running, it might be safe to plug in
>>the ethernet cable and leave it plugged in again.
RM> Don't know portsentry - could you enlighten us?
Portsentry is exactly that, it monitors a selected list of ports on your
machine and when a scan of your machine is detected, it grabs the
sources address and slams it into the /etc/hosts.deny file. Your
machine suddenly disappears as far as that source ip address is
concerned.
I'll repeat the address, its <www.psionic.com>, great utility. It
doesn't come with a startup script to put in /etc/rc.d/init.d, but
cobbling that together for an automatic start at boot time doesn't take
a rocket scientist.
>>That may not be enough to stop a really determined cracker, but its
>>managed to reject about 30 passes at hacking my office machine so far.
RM> :-) But you are right, there is no "magic bullet" - as the old saw goes,
RM> the price of freedom (of having a safe machine) is eternal vigilence.
RM> Modify, maintain, monitor. Constantly.
Yup. Also, and everyone reading this should burn this next bit into
their nvram, or paint it on the wall, whatever.
There is a bit of a script helper that shows you how to make portsentry
keep its own logfile so you don't have to wade thru a 10 meg messages
file to find its reports. ISTR that tutorial link is from
www.securityfocus.com. It will make your security logging a lot easier
to puruse.
Anyway, their instructions tell you to add a ';local0' to the end of the
line in /etc/syslog.conf that starts with '*.info;'. Thats wrong, at
least on my machine its 'info.*;' and if you add the local0 to the end
of it, logging stops! The addition MUST BE ';local0.*'
They also mention that its a comma delimited list, but its semicolons in
mine. Maintain whatever convention is used in your /etc/syslog file.
Follow the rest of the instructions about how to setup the log
rotation. Then stop and start /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog and your logging
will be back in business.
Cheers, Gene
--
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From: Frank Ranner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: novell print queue access
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 00:30:05 +1100
Reinhardt Behm wrote:
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (andi smart) writes:
> >We have an intranet server with RH6.1 - however we are mainly a Novell
> >Netware 4.11 site with our printing being controlled by NDS print
> >queues.
> >
> >Just occasionally I would like to be able to send a print job from our
> >Linux server to the printer in the room next door (HP Laserjet 2100TN)
> >- is there any way I can send a print task from the linux server to a
> >Novell print queue?
> >andi smart
> >
> >"A single open mind, can open any door"
> > Sonia Rutstein
>
> There is a package for netware support. It contains ncpmount, nprint etc.
> nprint can be used to send a file to the print q.
> It works for me at least with Netware 3.xx, did not test it with Netware 4.xx
> I just don't know it's name.
>
ncputils
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can one app crashing bring down whole system?
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:49:54 -0000
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:48:16 GMT, wrote :
JH> Robert Heller writes:
JH> > What sometimes happens is one process does something that the other
JH> > cannot deal with (the bad application has a bug and did a nono and the
JH> > other could not deal with the problem and crashed).
JH>
JH> Then they are both buggy. No program should crash as result of "bad"
JH> input.
Right. No argument with this. Netscape and Mozzilla are *known* to
have all sorts of problems. Motif (used by both) is also a beast with
many problems. X Servers have been known to be temperamental, esp. for
bleeding edge video cards -- reverse engineering is not really a
replacement for proper specs and board API docs.
JH> --
JH> John Hasler
JH> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
JH> Dancing Horse Hill
JH> Elmwood, WI
JH>
--
\/
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: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can one app crashing bring down whole system?
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:49:55 -0000
Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Sun, 15 Oct 2000 07:24:11 -0400, wrote :
TL> Hartmann Schaffer wrote:
TL> >
TL> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
TL> > Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
TL> > > ...
TL> > >You need to have run "savetextmode" BEFORE you have a problem.
TL> >
TL> > is that part of some package? if not where can i find it?
TL>
TL>
TL> It sems to be part of Svgalib - rpm doesn't know about it, and
TL> the man page admits to not knowing its origin..
sauron.deepsoft.com% locate savetextmode
/slack30/usr/bin/savetextmode
/usr/bin/savetextmode
/usr/man/man1/savetextmode.1
sauron.deepsoft.com% rpm -qf /usr/bin/savetextmode
svgalib-1.3.0-2
sauron.deepsoft.com runs RedHat 5.2, and yes, it used to run Slackware
3.0, and apearently savetextmode has been on the scene for quite some time.
TL>
TL>
TL> --
TL> Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
TL> SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
TL> job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
TL>
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Subject: Re: quake for linux?
From: Russell Marks <russell.marks@spam^H^H^H^Hntlworld.com>
Date: 15 Oct 2000 14:53:55 +0100
Tijmen Stam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought there was a quake (1) for linux fersion already out in stores,
> but I couldn't find any on games.linux.com. Can anyone tell me anything
> about it?
IIRC, the commercial Linux version comes with both the add-on mission
thingies, or something, so it's worth considering. But you can also
just buy the DOS/Win version and download Linux binaries - this should
work out cheaper (it did for me [1]), though you do only get the
standard game. Last time I looked, the Quake HOWTO described how to
take that approach.
Oh, and since you mentioned 3D cards - Quake runs nicely with software
rendering as long as you don't push the resolution too high. I'm sure
it'd be nicer with hardware 3D, but you don't need it.
(Nor do you need it for Quake 2, BTW - I tried the demo of that a
while back (which I didn't think much of), and I think that ran ok in
400x300 for me.)
-Rus.
[1] At the time I think the comparison was roughly 30 quid mail-order
versus 10 quid from a local shop. Given that I wasn't sure if I'd like
the game (though I did), that was a pretty easy choice to make. :-)
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Subject: Re: How can one app crashing bring down whole system?
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 Oct 2000 10:06:58 -0400
Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> In a message on Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:48:16 GMT, wrote :
>
> JH> Robert Heller writes:
> JH> > What sometimes happens is one process does something that the other
> JH> > cannot deal with (the bad application has a bug and did a nono and the
> JH> > other could not deal with the problem and crashed).
> JH>
> JH> Then they are both buggy. No program should crash as result of "bad"
> JH> input.
>
> Right. No argument with this. Netscape and Mozzilla are *known* to
> have all sorts of problems. Motif (used by both) is also a beast with
> many problems. X Servers have been known to be temperamental, esp. for
> bleeding edge video cards -- reverse engineering is not really a
> replacement for proper specs and board API docs.
I thought I might chime in with my experiences. The problems with
Motif are only complicated, it seems, when using mwm or dtwm. Even the
more stable versions of Netscape can freeze my Solaris CDE desktop for
up to a minute. And Solaris, afaik, uses older versions of the X
servers than XFree86. None of my hardware could be termed "bleeding
edge"... it seems more like a misinterpretation of a client's X
protocol requests by the server. As a quick experiment, I did a "ln
-s libXm.so.2 libXm.so.1" and then tried running netscape-dynMotif
directly. This is on a Debian-slink i586 laptop, with a Metro-X
server. The output was a bunch of libXm warnings about data size
mismatches, then a bunch of X protocol errors, of the type "Illegal
representation of type id", and finally a bus error. So it seems that
Motif has a good deal to do with it. Anyone have experience setting
up Gnome on a Solaris machine? And also, anybody have experience
yet with the KDE 2 browser?
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From: Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Accessing certain sites fails SOLVED.
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:00:56 -0500
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 13 Oct 2000 16:44:20 GMT, Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> Attempting to access http://freshmeat.net/ from my Linux box fails. At
> I have the same problem with some sites www.[av, irtc, dailyjobs].com
> do this, but only a while after I made connection.(???) at first,
> they seem to work fine, but later they go bogus. They still go
> bogus if i reconnect (I use ISDN),
"Go bogus" doesn't tell us much. That means that we can only give out
WAGs. This doesn't sound like the same problem, it *might* be a flow
control problem. Do you use an ISDN TA, or a card? If it's a TA then
check the settings to make sure it does hardware flow-control and check
the pppd options to make sure it has crtscts.
It could also be that the serial port UART FIFO buffer flow control
doesn't support ISDN speeds very well. The usual 16550A UART has a
nominal maximum rating of 115200 bps minus the two framing bits for
each byte sent between the computer and the serial port, or 92160
bps for data, while a full-up ISDN can do 128 kbps.
> ping doesn't work either. They all need a "cool-down" of a couple
> of hours. This is only sice I use ISDN, with modem/same ISP/same
> Account didn't do this...
Sounds strange. Does "cool-down" mean you turn off the hardware
for two hours? ( It's a *not* an unreasonable question.) If you
just mean that it works again after waiting about two hours then
you should say so. In that case it's even stranger since the PPP
problems I know about that go away after some time interval do it
after a much shorter time. Unless the ISP is limiting connections
in a odd way.
>> >This kind of problem is usually caused by mismatched MTUs Do not set
>> >the MTU or MRU for the PPP interface. If the ISP is stupid enough
>> >to request a MTU for itself that's smaller than the 1500 default then
>> >use the pppd default-mru.
> What are MTU's / MRU's ?
MTU = Maximum Transfer Unit
The maximum number of data bytes it can/will transmit as a block.
This is set by pppd and can only be changed if the peer wants a
different MRU.
MRU = Maximum Receive Unit
The maximum number of data bytes is would like to receive in one
block. It is 1500 by default but can be negotiated, given that
the peer is willing.
Only MRU is negotiated via the PPP protocol although the MTU can be
affected by the MRU that is negotiated.
> Mine are both set to 1500, should I change them or leave them
> out altogether?
Either one will result in both being set to 1500, unless the peer
wants to use a different MRU in which case it might change depending
on how PPP is implemented on both sides.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
/* The wealth of a nation is created by the productive labor of its
* citizens. */
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From: "E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Can I install Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 from CD-ROM on PCMCIA SCSI?
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 15:02:50 GMT
On my subnotebook, I've only got access to a SCSI CD-ROM drive via my
Adaptec PCMCIA SCSI card. I'm running Win95 right now and I want do
dual-boot it with COL.
I badly want to install COL 2.4. Can anyone help me? I'm new to Linux. My
other experience was with FreeBSD, but on a different machine with a
built-in CD-ROM drive.
Any help greatly appreciated.
-e.
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