Linux-Misc Digest #228, Volume #26 Sat, 4 Nov 00 15:13:03 EST
Contents:
Another hacker hits Microsoft ("David ..")
gaim on mandrake 7.1 (Tei)
Re: two peices of legislation i would like to see (Alexander Viro)
Re: hang on 'remounting root filesystem'? -fixed ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to check passwd is correct? (Beggar)
Re: eOne and Linux - modem question (E J)
help: man fg/bg colors == (John D Prokopek)
User-mode page fault handlers (was Re: TOPS-10 security model) (Eric Smith)
StarOffice hampering IP-clients (Michael Conze)
rplay crashes linux (Michael Conze)
Re: How to install XF86_SVGA? ("rude")
Adding NIC + scanner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Time Prob (E J)
Re: Adding NIC + scanner ("Peter T. Breuer")
mount.smbfs : 'Bad adress'... (Nicolas Fauvel)
PAN Newsreader Questions/Discussion! (Douglas E. Mitton)
Re: Bad block on drive using RAID-1 (David Efflandt)
Re: PAN Newsreader Questions/Discussion! ("Jan Schaumann")
exmh sendmail (Lance Hoffmeyer)
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Another hacker hits Microsoft
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 10:16:22 -0600
Just thought other's might enjoy the read.
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-11-04-008-06-SC-MS
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Completed more work units than: 98.778% of seti users.
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From: Tei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gaim on mandrake 7.1
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 11:27:37 -0500
I'm in a bind... I've gotten sick and tired of windows for the umpteenth time,
and decided to go back to linux (again)... I got all of the major flavors
(redhat 7. mandrake 7.1, corel, SuSe, etc), and mandrake seems to be the
best... however, I can't get gaim working... (aol im client)... it comes with
the distribution, but when I load it up, it starts to connect, goes all the way
through, then says "no configuration"... I haven't had this problem with any of
the other vers (but with them, I had to install it myself)... any ideas how to
fix it? Thnx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro)
Subject: Re: two peices of legislation i would like to see
Date: 4 Nov 2000 11:45:50 -0500
In article <8tutl9$krs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, guy-jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Smitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> guy-jin wrote:
>
>> Let's keep the government out of our lives and let the free software
>> movement grow in a free market place.
>
>1) its your government. it should listen to you,
>and work for you. 'keeping it out of our lives'
>is antidemocratic.
There's no such thing as _my_ government. .us one I didn't vote for, .ru...
well, let me put it that way - I don't want to describe what I would wish
to them. Severe inflammation of testicles would make a good start, but next
stage is definitely not fit for family reading. Oh, and I didn't vote for
these bastards too.
>2) yes, i agree free software will grow like
>crazy in a free marketplace. please wake me
>when that happens. <coma>
Look, if $foo suits somebody better than $bar - you've got no friggin'
business to tell them that they should use $bar. Period. If somebody
wants MacOS <barf> - it's their decision. If they don't want to spend
money/time/efforts retraining their users/finding replacement software/
converting the data/switching to new backup tools/converting the data
on backup tapes, yodda, yodda - they have absolute right to tell you
where you can shove your suggestions.
--
"You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"
"Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 10:54:04 -0500
Subject: Re: hang on 'remounting root filesystem'? -fixed
Don't know how exactly, or what caused it (although 'operator error' is
almost a certainty!) but I fixed it by booting via tomsrtbt bootdisk and
rejiggering fstab (and mtab). It looks like I could have gotten past the
'remounting' message anyway simply by hitting <Ctrl-C> though perhaps only
in 'single user' mode.
Anyway, it's fixed. I learned a bit but I'm still somewhat puzzled.
Glad I got an emergency bootdisk now though.
F.
In <3a03ddfc$2$qnivfs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/04/00
at 04:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Greetings!
>I had to crash out of Linux tonight -- power switch! --; I was fooling
>with nfs and got stuck.
>It did it's 'forced checking' routine and gave a [PASSED]; then it seems
>to hang at REMOUNTING ROOT FILESYSTEM IN READ-WRITE MODE, altho it
>indicates [OK] so perhaps the hang is just after this routine.
>I just discovered I don't have a serviceable bootdisk (I'm going to see
>if I can get that 'tomsrtbt' bootdisk) but even if I could boot into the
>system, I'm not sure what I'm looking to correct.
>I welcome some help here; thanks!
>It's a RedHat 6.0 system (laptop); I was doing nfs via a pcmcia card to
>my desktop. The HD is otherwise intact -- I'm using it now in OS/2 and
>the RH cdrom sees the HD though I noticed it hanged also on trying to
>create a rescue disk.
>>>>I had sent this out yesterday to comp.os.linux.misc and I'm reposting it to this
>group since I didn't get an answer there -- I'm sure someone will try to help, but
>it's getting urgent. I also can't get out on the web, it seems -- some kind of DNS
>problem? -- so I can't get to that bootdisk site. I'll try to make a normal floppy
>install disk but still, once I'm in, I'm not sure what kind of diagnostics I should d
>F.
>-----------------------------------------------------------
> Felmon John Davis
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Union College / Schenectady, NY
> os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
>-----------------------------------------------------------
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
===========================================================
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From: Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: How to check passwd is correct?
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 01:01:12 +0800
Hi all,
How can I write a program in shell script or perl to
test user's input passwd is correct compare with /etc/shadow?
Is that need to use "crypt()" ? any other quick method or
function that I can pass the input and compare the string to
the shadow file's passwd field?
Please reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Thanks!!
Dicky
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eOne and Linux - modem question
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 09:09:59 -0800
Jon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a Linux newbie :-)
> I have an eOne running Linux and seek modem info:
>
> I run :
> eOne from eMachines
> PII 433 mHz
> 64MB RAM
> 6 GB hd
> RH7
> Gnome
> Enlightenment wm
> XFree86-4.0.01
> No OS besides Linux
>
> As far as I can tell from their web site and my "documentation"
> this machine has a winmodem (I know, I know) of this flavor:
> HSP MicroModem 56K PCI set up on COM 4 IRQ 3
> That's all I can find.
>
> Has anyone succeeded in getting this sucker hooked to the web via Linux?
> If so, how?
According to www.linmodems.org, you are out of luck. Email or write the
manufacturer of your modem or chip set to release the hardware
specification to the open source community.
>
>
> I have a spare 28.8 ISA Motorola modem. ("hardware" modem)
> Does anyone know if I crack open this weirdo case on the eOne
> whether there is an open ISA slot I could use for this modem?
>
Probably if there is a spare ISA slot, just use the io address, irq and com
address of the old modem when you replace it.
or use unique io address, irq and com address if you decide to keep the old
modem.
>
> Suggestions, Urls, sympathy <g> appreciated :-)
>
> --
> Jon - I love Jesus Christ
> http://www.jonsplace.org/
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From: John D Prokopek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help: man fg/bg colors ==
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 12:35:37 -0500
Can some help me out?
I am running rh6.2 and run my xterm with black fg on a yellow
background.
Normally everything displays find, EXCEPT man pages.
for some reason man displays yellow on yellow. The only thing that
is displayed in black is the ':' on the bottom.
I have tried different console types and color combinations but it seems
that no matter what I do the man page does not show except for the ':'
help would be greatly appreciate
thanks
--
John D. Prokopek
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"The bus came by and I got on
thats when it all began ...."
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From: Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.sys.pdp10
Subject: User-mode page fault handlers (was Re: TOPS-10 security model)
Date: 04 Nov 2000 09:38:40 -0800
I wrote:
> Yes, and it's a real shame. I've had lots of occasions when I've wanted
> a user-mode page fault handler in Linux, but there isn't one.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Viro) writes:
> One could argue that you should read manpages for signal(2) and mmap(2) and
> notice that you _can_ handle pagefaults in userland. You get to do the
> serialization with mmap()/munmap()/mlock()/etc. yourself, but that's kinda
> obvious.
When I look at the mmap man page under Red Hat 7.0, it tells me that I
can get a SIGSEGV if there's an attempted write to a read-only region.
Isn't that exactly the same behavior as for an unmapped region?
And reading the signal(2) page doesn't explain to me how I determine
what the faulted address was, so that I can map the appropriate page.
Nor does it tell me whether returning from the signal handler will in
fact appropriately restart or resume the faulted instruction.
Perhaps there is a way to do these things, but it does NOT appear to be
in the man pages (or maybe I'm just dense). And if I can't do these
things, then I can't write a proper user-mode fault handler.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Conze)
Subject: StarOffice hampering IP-clients
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 18:48:31 GMT
Hi,
I also have another tricky thingy: When SO (5.1) is open, fetchmail
and sendmail report 'host not found'. host, however, finds the
mailserver quite surely. After exiting SO, both programs work nicely
again.
I'm not particularly fond of using SO as mail client - to bulky, and
my machine too small. How can I get it to quit that obnoxious
behaviour?
Thanks for Your input
Michael
Michael Conze
Stuttgart
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Conze)
Subject: rplay crashes linux
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 18:48:30 GMT
Hi.
I've got SuSE-linux 6.0 running fine on a 75 MHz Pentium-Laptop (NEC
Versa P/75, 40 MB) . But - now I've tried to setup my sound system
with modbprobing sb. Works fine on Waves: And.au-files too, as long as
i cat them to /dev/sound or /dev/dsp. Wavplay works to. Now, when I
try to make system sounds active via rplay, the system stalls. Keys
don't react, mouse dead, nothing helps but hard reboot. As it crashes
immediately, I have no log of famous last wods. Has anyone had similar
problems? Thanks for any clues
Michael
Michael Conze
Stuttgart
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "rude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to install XF86_SVGA?
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 19:47:59 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
install the xsvga package and run XF86Setup again
In article <8u0eh0$moe$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "gina"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to install OpenLinux via LISA. After setting up, during
> XF86Setup of the hardware components, I was prompted that my display
> server should be SVGA for my graphics card, and prompted me to change.
> How do I do that?
>
> Tks
>
> Gina
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adding NIC + scanner
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 18:22:55 GMT
Hi
I recently added a few bits of hardware, and I'd like to get them
working with Linux (I have SuSE 6.2).
I've added an Agfa SnapScan 1236s (comes with an Adaptec AHA1505, which
uses the aha152x driver). I don't expect too much from the version of
SANE that's bundled (1.0) which doesn't have decent support for my
scanner. The first problem, though, is to get the SCSI card to be
recognized. The other bit of kit I've added is a Realtek 8139 NIC (not
realizing how cheap and nasty it was before I bought it).
If I do "modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,11" then the driver seems to be
loaded OK. That's fine, but I'd rather have the support there
permanently.
It's quite some time since I've built a kernel and configured lilo, and
it's here that I've been having problems. When I rebuilt my kernel,
vmlinux shot up from around 700K previously to about 1.8M. Is that
normal? I can just about imagine that the make is detecting that the
NIC is there, and is now compiling stuff into the kernel rather than as
modules. Still, it seems an awful lot.
The next problem is getting lilo to work correctly. I added a new image
section so that I could boot from the old kernel. I ran lilo, and it
gave me a warning about my boot drive not being the first (which is
true, I've set the BIOS to boot off my 2nd disk). However, when I'm at
the lilo prompt, [tab] only shows the "linux" entry and not the "prev"
one for the previous kernel. Lastly, no matter what I seem to do
(either using the append line in lilo.conf, i.e.,
append="aha152x=0x140,11"
or adding it at the lilo boot prompt, it doesn't seem to work.
I haven't yet tried conf.modules.
TIA for any help.
Regards.
Paul
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Time Prob
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 10:42:21 -0800
1) Turn off the auto power off in your BIOS
or
2) Set your Linux time to GMT
or
3) Update your kernel to latest version
or
4) Modify time.c to update Linux time from the Real Time Clock shorter than
the default of 11 minutes.
I did 1) for Redhat 6.x and did 3) for Redhat 7.0
"K. Creed" wrote:
> When I first boot up Linux and launch X the time is displayed correctly,
> but after awhile it resets to a time six hours prior. I've used the
> date command which works temporarily but the time still resets
> incorrectly after awhile.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Kris
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding NIC + scanner
Date: 4 Nov 2000 18:35:06 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: scanner. The first problem, though, is to get the SCSI card to be
: recognized. The other bit of kit I've added is a Realtek 8139 NIC (not
: realizing how cheap and nasty it was before I bought it).
No, those work fine. No hassle, and 9-10MB/s in tcp on 100BT. Very
impressive and about twice as fast as my older 3c905's. More reliable
than my intel eepro100's.
: It's quite some time since I've built a kernel and configured lilo, and
: it's here that I've been having problems. When I rebuilt my kernel,
: vmlinux shot up from around 700K previously to about 1.8M. Is that
Son't you mean bzImage? vmlinux is the uncompressed image, which you
don't use. It gets compressed by gzip and header code added to become
bzImage.
You probably need to read some of the Kernel or Module HOWTOs to remind
yourself of what's up.
Peter
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From: Nicolas Fauvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mount.smbfs : 'Bad adress'...
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 19:20:59 +0100
Bonour,
voil� mon petit probl�me r�seau : j'ai un pc sous windows et un sous la
distribution suse 6.4 . J'ai t�l�charg� le noyau 2.3.99-pre9, je l'ai
configur� et compil�. Depuis que je l'utilise, la commande 'mount
"\\\john\disque_dur" /john/disque_dur -t smbfs -o password=" me donne
'bad adress' et tout un tas d'autres erreurs ensuite. Sur le noyau
d'origine, le 2.2.14, tout marchait parfaitement. De plus, j'arrive
parfaitement � me connecter � cette ressource avec 'smbclient '.J'ai
pourtant bien compil� ce nouveau noyau avec l'option 'smb file system'
!!!
Manquerait-il une autre option ???
Merci.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton)
Subject: PAN Newsreader Questions/Discussion!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 19:06:50 GMT
I've been reading in the various Linux newsgroups about Pan, about how
its native Linux and very Agent-ish and I thought I'd give it a try.
Now, I realize it is Beta but I have some questions about the proper
way to "use" it. Are there any Pan experts here who can give me some
pointers?
I am a long term Agent user and my Usenet experience is very closely
tied to how Agent works, Pan looks very similar BUT it doesn't act the
same.
There are a few things that I've seen BUT I will just ask about them
one-at-a-time as I encounter them.
The first one that I found is the way the reading cursor proceeds
through the Subject window. Prior to this I have subscribed to a
group, loaded in the headers and proceeded to delete all that I'm not
interested in. Then I Flag all the remaining headers and click
"Download All Flagged Articles". (I tried to press "j" as I initially
read through the headers BUT it won't increment to the next header
when I do that.)
Now I click on the first article, read it then I press delete, the
next article header is selected BUT the message body doesn't appear
until I click on the subject.
Is there a way around this, such that as soon as the message subject
is selected the body is displayed. And also, maybe associated with
it, when I Flag each individual header that it increments to the next
automatically.
Thanks in advance for any responses.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Bad block on drive using RAID-1
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 19:14:22 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 31 Oct 2000, Sacha J. Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I have a RAID-1 setup going using kernel version 2.2.17, and it appears that
>there is a bad block on one of the two drives. I don't consider this a
>whole-drive failure, and would like to continue using that drive. Here are
>the messages I'm receiving:
>
>ckraid returns:
>
>read error on device file /dev/hdg4, block #23461956 = 0x1660044
>
>and the kernel reports:
>
>Oct 31 03:14:34 bardeen kernel: hdg: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
>SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
>Oct 31 03:14:34 bardeen kernel: hdg: read_intr: error=0x40 {
>UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=57189447, sector=46923912
>Oct 31 03:14:34 bardeen kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 22:04 (hdg),
>sector 46923912
>
>
>So, is there anything I can do to tell the kernel to not use this block (on
>either drive) and to rebuild the RAID set skipping the bad section? What
>are my options other than replacing an entire drive that only has a small
>section bad?
IDE drives normally reserve some unseen disk space to automatically map
into any bad sectors. The fact that you see a bad sector that was not
seen before is a bad sign, it could mean that the drive is self
destructing.
If the drive manufacturer has a diagnostic program, see what it says. I
had a WD 2.1GB drive once, that appeared to pass even the distructive test
of writing all 1's or 0's to the drive. But when I tried to write mixed
data to the latter 3/4 of the drive, scandisk in Win95 kept finding more
bad sectors, and the non-destructive WD diagnostics at that point said
that the drive was bad with "no error sites remaining". The warranty
replacement worked flawlessly except for a temporary glitch below.
One other thought with your number of drives is overheating. When I was
getting lost interrupt errors I discovered that my case was packed with
lint in front of the inlet fan. Clearing that resolved my drive interrupt
problems with no loss of data (other than gaps in the logs), even though
it had gotten to the point that I could not 'shutdown'.
--
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PAN Newsreader Questions/Discussion!
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 14:30:46 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been reading in the various Linux newsgroups about Pan, about how
> its native Linux and very Agent-ish and I thought I'd give it a try.
>
> Now, I realize it is Beta but I have some questions about the proper way
> to "use" it. Are there any Pan experts here who can give me some
> pointers?
The *real* pan-experts read the pan-user-mailinglist (it's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - see http://www.superpimp.org for how to
scubscribe and where it's archived). Seriously, every question you aks
there will be answered in a very short time, lots of helpful firendly
people there.
> I am a long term Agent user and my Usenet experience is very closely
> tied to how Agent works, Pan looks very similar BUT it doesn't act the
> same.
>
> There are a few things that I've seen BUT I will just ask about them
> one-at-a-time as I encounter them.
>
> The first one that I found is the way the reading cursor proceeds
> through the Subject window. Prior to this I have subscribed to a group,
> loaded in the headers and proceeded to delete all that I'm not
> interested in. Then I Flag all the remaining headers and click
> "Download All Flagged Articles". (I tried to press "j" as I initially
> read through the headers BUT it won't increment to the next header when
> I do that.)
>
> Now I click on the first article, read it then I press delete, the next
> article header is selected BUT the message body doesn't appear until I
> click on the subject.
>
> Is there a way around this, such that as soon as the message subject is
> selected the body is displayed. And also, maybe associated with it,
> when I Flag each individual header that it increments to the next
> automatically.
What version do you use? I'm not sure, but I *think* that 0.9.1 does have
single-click-preview enabled - that is, when you select a message you
autmoatically download the body. There is the shortcut "n" (which does
this) and tehre is "shift+n", which only selects the next article-header
without downloading the body.
In previous versions this was the other way around, but people complained
that they would primarily use the option that downloads the body as well,
so it was swapped (got me?).
If you're interested in Pan and the latest advances, you might want to
compile the latest from CVS (again see http://www.superpimp.org for
details)...
Also, 0.9.2 is about to be published in a couple of days.
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
"I love every living creature." -Leela
"Even me?" -Fry
"As a friend." -Leela
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From: Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: exmh sendmail
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 19:31:20 GMT
I am having a problem with exmh and sending mail. I am using debian
Woody and have a ADSL line. The from line keeps putting:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have tried adding
clientname: august.com
localname: august.com
to mts.conf but this hasn't helped. Any suggestions?
Lance
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