Linux-Setup Digest #79, Volume #21 Fri, 20 Apr 01 14:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Auto FTP , How To ("G.BULOT")
Re: lpr broken, instant error message (Mike Knudsen)
Re: Re: Problem with dual boot ("Mark")
Re: command for formatting hard disk? ("Mark")
Re: Move Kernel Module (Paul Kimoto)
Re: how to make router ("RAV")
Re: Damn, sorry ("Patrick LaRoche")
Re: Lilo with Redhat7.0 ("rjrj")
Deb potato / AbitKT7A / AcerDVDROM (Alan)
SiS900 Ethernet not Working (Jeff Klouda)
Re: RH7.1 + USB during install? (Markku Kolkka)
Re: DHCP and Road Runner blues (Tom Romeo)
XDMCP on Linux (Jagged)
Re: RH7.1 + USB during install? ("Snowman")
Re: FTP problem with RH 6.2, 7.0 (Bill Brown)
Re: RH7.1 + USB during install? (Brian Langenberger)
Re: LFS (Linux From Scratch) (Jason Lott)
Re: How do I change Screen Resolution in Gnome or KDE (Joeri Sebrechts)
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From: "G.BULOT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Auto FTP , How To
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:31:20 +0200
thanks a lot for yhis link !
It seems well, but i don't understant the lines
sites=home,work
for the /etc/auto_ftp.conf
when i run the auto_ftp, i've got the message :
Can't opendir : Aucun fichier ou r�pertoire de ce type at /sbin/auto_ftp.pl
line 89.
1) Yes i'm a french user
2) the line 89 is the last line !
Gof_Of_Pain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
QdWD6.2774$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Goto http://freshmeat.net
> search for auto_ftp
> I works great, I use it a lot.
>
> batman wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > i'd like to copy every day (cron) my local webSite to my ISP WebSite
> >
> > how i can do that
> >
> > Maybe i had to use ftp with a script ?
> >
> > thanks for help
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Knudsen)
Date: 20 Apr 2001 14:46:29 GMT
Subject: Re: lpr broken, instant error message
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter T. Breuer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Presmably because neither /etc/hosts nor NIS nor BIND contains an entry
>for your hostname.
OK, I'll look up in my stack of books how to add this stuff. I know NIS is old
YP.
>Yep. That's it, if you don't. lpd needs tcp.
Good old comp-center mentality. What's the easiest way to check whether my
kernel has TCP/IP installed and enabled? ISTR that it does, but it's a long
time since I built it. And I'm on Slackware, so can't use all those great (?)
RH GUI utilities.
>char-major-WHAT?
Well, all that the bootup messages say is "missing module char-major." But I
gather this isn't relevant to lpr or TCP/IP?
>do filter < foo > /dev/lpr0 instead!
Well DUH on me! After 20 years of UNIX usage I should have checked whether
those filters were free-standing and could be piped by the user!
Thanks, Mike K.
Life is a game. Play to enjoy!
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From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re: Problem with dual boot
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:27:52 -0600
Where is your CDROM attached? Master/slave on which IDE controller,
(assuming an IDE CDROM of course). The link to /dev/hdd assumes it is the
slave drive on the secondary controller. If this is not the case just delete
the symbolic link and create another one pointing to the correct device,
ln -s /dev//cdrom /dev/hdx
with x =
a if it is master on the primary IDE controller
b if it is slave " "
c if it is master on the secondary IDE controller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:r.987396237.1595581054@[203.200.58.165]...
> Dear dbianchi,
>
> In your posting Re: Problem with dual boot from 12 Apr 2001 13:21:27
> GMT you write:
> Ok, you are right.
> LILO is not resposible. I have replaced the CPU and motherboard. Have put
> PIII 733 MHz CPU and a Mercury motherboard(which cost me bucks). But I
have
> one more problem. After installing SuSE 7.1 over Win98, my CDROM is
> inaccessible. /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdd. Any suggestions
> Thanks
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > installed SuSE 7.1 from CD. Everything went off fine, I put LILO on
MBR
> > > and the next time I went to SuSE, after a few minutes the system
crashed
> > > and I found that my motherboard and CPU had to be replaced.
> >
> > Well, I don't think you can blame LILO for this...
> > Davide
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
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From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: command for formatting hard disk?
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 14:48:14 -0600
Hello Crystal,
First off is this a new, unformatted partition or is it a partition that was
already there but you don't know what filesystem type it is? If it is a
pre-existing partition you may want to try the mount command using the
different file system types available before you assume that it is empty.
You might want to consult your /etc/fstab file first. If it is an empty,
unformatted partition then blast away!
"Crystal Luo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9bmgs7$i5i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, all.
>
> I have a hard disk partition that cannot be mounted. The complain message
is
> something like " you must give a file system type". I've tried to give
ext2,
> but the partition is not recognized as ext2. Do I have to 'format' the
> partition to a recognized fstype first? If I have to, could anyone tell me
> what the command is? Thank you very much indeed.
>
> Crystal
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Move Kernel Module
Date: 20 Apr 2001 11:03:26 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Peshak wrote:
> Can i compile a kernel module on one machine and then load it on
> another machine?
Possibly. It helps to have the same kernel version and the .config
file on the two machines. (Particularly important are the settings
of CONFIG_MODVERSIONS and CONFIG_SMP.)
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: "RAV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to make router
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:31:16 +0200
>
> I am trying to setup a router also. To do this, I installed "diald",
> "pppd" and "chat" on a Linux based workstation. It can now make a
> PPP connection automatically, but packets seem failed to be route to
> the local workstation. Therefore, I am still working on it.
>
> I believe that your hardware can be supported by Linux and this would
> be a good way for you to set up a route. Hope this can help you and
> sorry for insufficient information. (I am just a newbie! :P)
Thanks, but I have found a cool page for my problem, try it
www.freesco.arx.pl
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From: "Patrick LaRoche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Damn, sorry
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:47:26 GMT
Arg, this got stuck in my outbox. I am so sorry guys.
Pat
"Patrick LaRoche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:b0YD6.302$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Did you check your hosts.allow and hosts.deny files? If the hotsts.deny
> file has
> ALL: ALL in it, no one can connect to your computer.
>
> Don't know if that is your problem though, just an idea.
>
> Patrick
> (PS, do you have a dynamicly assigned address for your router? If so, how
> did you open up port 5500? I only know how to with a static IP and I'm
> looking for help)
>
>
> "dubcaller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:SupD6.2096$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > HI ALL,
> >
> > I have a hotline server running behind my IPCHAINS, RED HAT 7.0, router.
> It
> > uses port 5500. I've opened the port (in and out) in my rc.firewall and
> > fowarded the port to my correct internal address. For some reason
hotline
> > clients can't connect. Has anyone been successfull running a Hotline
> server
> > behind a simliar setup. Are there modules that I need to install?
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "rjrj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo with Redhat7.0
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 00:32:06 +0800
Hi:
When I install my RH7.0 , I always no make boot disk.
I have sucessfully rescued my computer more times.
My method is :
(1)use RH7.0#1 to boot and select "linux rescue" mode.
(2)if you see prompt # , you can type
#mount /dev/hdax /mydisk ----- x is your "/" partition, if you forget the
partition number, you can start from 1 to try it.
(3)if you mount ok . ---- you can use "ls" & "pico" to check file content
is correct.
#cd /mydisk/etc
#pico lilo.conf ----- you can check content or modify it,
#../sbin/lilo -r /mydisk ---- you can run lilo. if some error , you can
"pico lilo.conf" again.
I have no window-me, only win98, you can try it.
Lucky~~~~
>When installing RH7.0 I stupidly didn't make a boot disk, so now I can't
>get in to run /sbin/lilo again. I tried booting with the cd to 'linux
>rescue', but doing a mount -a doesn't show up the lilo binary in /sbin.
>
>Anyone any ideas how I can get lilo to run again from rescue or wherever
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From: Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deb potato / AbitKT7A / AcerDVDROM
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:59:09 GMT
I'm trying to install Debian potato on a new system.
All is fine until it gets to the point of installing the base system (base2_2.tgz)
Then it fails with the following error:
"File error!
There was a problem extracting the Base System from
/instmnt/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/base2_2.tgz"
On console 4 (Alt-F4) I see the following:
repeated error of
"<4>hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
<4>hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30"
followed by
"<4>hdc: ATAPI reset complete"
ending with
"<4>end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 1013544 <-- this number changes
<4>end_request: buffer-list destroyed
<4>hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekCompl"
Does anyone have any ideas?
Many thanks in advance.
Alan
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From: Jeff Klouda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SiS900 Ethernet not Working
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:58:49 -0500
I have a SIS630 motherboard which has all onboard cards. The LAN card
is an SiS900. I am installing Redhat 7.0.
Doing an lspci -vv I see the card at IRQ 11 and IO de00. I also see
some communications port on IRQ 11.
When I cat /proc/interrupts there is no entry for IRQ 11.
I added the following in my modules.conf
alias eth0 sis900
options sis900 io=de00 irq=11
When I boot I get an insmod failure trying to load the module.
modprobe fails also, but it says it doesn't know parm_io.
I have recompiled the kernel to rebuild the sis900.o to ensure I have
the latest version, but to no avail. So what do I try next?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: RH7.1 + USB during install?
Date: 20 Apr 2001 19:53:00 +0300
Brian Langenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If I have only a USB keyboard and mouse plugged in during a
> RedHat 7.1 install, will the installation floppy recognize them
> so I can install everything else?
USB mouse works in installation, I haven't tried an USB keyboard.
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tom Romeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,alt.linux.redhat,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: DHCP and Road Runner blues
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:54:37 GMT
FYI
I had the same problem with Optimum. If the modem link dropped for
any reason (a problem I've had), I would have to re-run pump manually
to reset the connection. If I let it sit it could take up to an hour
or (much) more to reset automatically. Eventually (recently) I bought=20=
SMC Barricade for use as a firewall/router/switch which seems to work=20=
without any problems, even when I have dropouts. The RH behavior was
very strange.
Tom Romeo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 4/19/01, 6:47:02 PM, "W Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding =
Re:=20
DHCP and Road Runner blues:
> Chris,
> I had alot of problems getting my Optimum Online (comparable to RR)
> cablemodem service up and running under linux. They key for me, was t=
o
> power the modem down for >30 minutes before trying to lease an ip with=
> linux. After rebooting w/ the powered up modem, it would re-read the =
mac
> addy off the nic in the linux box and everythign would be fine. Then =
you
> dont have to power down the modem again unless you switch the modem ov=
er=20
to
> another nic for some reason.
> Basically, you have to powerdown the modem long enough for it to forge=
t=20
the
> mac address of the nic for it to work.
> Hope this helps.
> WK
> grooveman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hello.
> >
> > I am running Redhat 6.2, and I am tying to use it with Mediaone (Now=
> > ATT) Road Runner service in the Detroit Metro area.
> >
> > My problem is that my machine would not lease from the DHCP server. =
Of
> > course, the customer support was useless in this issue: "we don't
> > support Line-ucks".
> >
> > I have researched this thoroughly, and have seen many people with th=
e
> > same or similar issue, but every single one failed to document clear=
ly
> > how they overcame this problem (if they did at all).
> >
> > I dropped pump all together. I have the version that comes stock wi=
th
> > RH 6.2. (0.7.8-1). I downloaded the latest version of DHCPCD versi=
on
> > 1.3.20-p10. I have gotten that to work -- but it only works about 1=
0
> > percent of the time. 90% of the time (or so) it fails. The README =
for
> > this utility is not helpful at all. The howto I found was even wors=
e.
> > When modifying the script of ifup an ifdown, it not only had the scr=
ipt
> > wrong, but it said to remove an "if" statement without touching the =
fi.
> > I am no scripting whiz, but I know you can't break conditionals like=
> > that without trashing the script.
> >
> > I modified ifup and ifdown, basically by replacing the pump commands=
> > with their dhcpcd equivalents. Then, I wrote a script that loops th=
e
> > ifup until it gets a lease. I put the script at the end of rc.local=
,
> > rather than having eth0 come up at init level 3. The net result is =
that
> > it runs through everything fine, and at the very last stage, tries t=
o
> > bring up eth0 until it is successful. It take about 10 times plus o=
r
> > minus.
> >
> > (SIGH........)
> >
> > What can I do to get this to work?
> >
> > I really appreciate any help I can get.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Chris
> >--=20
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From: Jagged <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XDMCP on Linux
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:04:48 +0200
High all,
I have set up Linux without the X11-Server, cos i want to use it with
the X-Server of another machine. How can I set up that Linux to have it
shown up in my XDMCP chooser?
Jagged
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From: "Snowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: RH7.1 + USB during install?
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:11:22 GMT
my logitech USB optical mouse worked in the install just fine :)
I don't have a usb keyboard, or I'd try it and let you know :|
"Brian Langenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9bpeb9$suu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> If I have only a USB keyboard and mouse plugged in during a
> RedHat 7.1 install, will the installation floppy recognize them
> so I can install everything else?
>
> This is not a major issue (I could always swap to PS/2 ones),
> but it would save me quite a bit of fumbling at the back of
> my box.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Brown)
Subject: Re: FTP problem with RH 6.2, 7.0
Date: 20 Apr 2001 16:40:54 GMT
Hi..
thanks for the reply...a little more exploration both off an on our network
has yielded some more information.
No DNS is involved...attach to the ftp server directly via a unique
routeable IP...
I just finished uploading some files (large, streaming media to a streaming
media hosting service) on an NT box using ws-ftp
throughput was reported as 400-500 kb/s, approximately the same for
download speeds...
had a client send us some html last night, and he was supposed to get some
.ai files (large) he was getting throuhput at around 80kb/s
thinking it might have been his connectivity...
vnc'd to my computer at home (w98 box, cable modem) ftp'd first to my
streaming host, got 800+kb/s down and 150 kb/s up (cap on upload, expected
that throughput up)
connected via vnc (again, lengthy logon process) to my RH6.2 box at work,
and just like our client, about 60 to 80 kb/s
came in to work, logged on to the RH box, and connected to my streaming
media server ftp. This is the server I get 400kb/s+ from on the NT box.
again, about 40kb/s on Linux
So, it would appear that the bottleneck is on the Linux box, no?
are there any switches, or config settings to make during the install? I
don't remember seeing one...just asked for basic host and IP info.
I would really like to get this up and running. (efficiently running, that
is!)
thanks for your help
Bill
>For all connections made by an external IP like some where on the
>Internet you need settings for your DNS1 and DNS2. For connections made
>by internal IP's on your LAN you need one of your DNS's to be in your
>LAN with an entery for each system on the LAN or you need an entery in
>/etc/hosts for all LAN systems with IP's.
>
>This is because when ever some one tries to start a connection to a
>Linux system the Linux system tries to find out who this person is. It
>will try to do reverse DNS lookup on thier IP, if you do not have your
>system setup this way the lag is caused by Linux timming out on the dns
>look up.
>
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From: Brian Langenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: RH7.1 + USB during install?
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:30:00 +0000 (UTC)
In comp.os.linux.help Snowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: my logitech USB optical mouse worked in the install just fine :)
: I don't have a usb keyboard, or I'd try it and let you know :|
Thank you both for your prompt responses :)
Since both mice and keyboards seem to use the same Linux USB
HID driver, I'm going to assume RedHat hasn't removed the facility
for one and not the other. I'll give it a try and post back if
any difficulties pop up (though I doubt it).
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From: Jason Lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: LFS (Linux From Scratch)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:54:58 -0500
Building everything from ground up, using only the GNU source, is definitely a
challenge, but once it was done... I can honestly say that I don't care if I
ever see another "convenient" RPM package. Having built a version of LFS (I used
more up to date sources where needed), and compiling sources for just about
everything else that I had on my RH7 systems, I found the LFS approach to be
both more stable and 30 percent smaller than the RH distribution (including X,
KDE, and GNOME)... Another good thing is that literally everything is built and
optimized for my Athlon CPU.
I'd be lying if I said that it was a snap to compile and install everything, but
having been through it, for me anyway it was well worth the trouble... A couple
of cautions:
If you're using RH7 or gcc-2.96-x (from anywhere)... replace it (gcc-2.96-x, and
it's libraries) before you begin... when it comes to stock kernel sources, and
building the official release of gcc (2.95.x) - it (gcc-2.96.x) will fail
silently (successful compilations, bad binaries)... This was a nightmare since I
was halfway through the building phase and had to start over again with a stable
compiler (involving a 7 step process ):
1- the removal of gcc-2.96-79, it's libraries-libstdc++,libobjc and others,
2-installing egcs from RH6.2,
3-compiling a statically-linked gcc-2.95.x ( no 2.96/beta contamination )
4-removing egcs,
5-installing gcc-2.95.x,
6-rebuilding gcc-2.95.x dynamically-linked ( libraries separate for some
.configure scripts)
7-installing the dynamically-linked gcc-2.95.x to prevent the editing of
configure scripts that checked directories for the gcc libraries.
The "lfs-commands" scripts aren't perfect ( not with RH anyway), for several of
them, it was necessary to either modify the command line, or export additional
environment variables... you'll see what I mean. :)
In the original lfs-packages, there are several patches included which you'll
need to apply before compilation.
Not mandatory, but probably recommended... I built my lfs systems with kernel
2.4.3 for which I installed the stock 2.4.3 kernel headers on the machine that I
used to compile the lfs sources... I'm not too sure if it made any difference or
not, but I know that everything is intact.
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:39:30 +0200, "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you care to wait 'till after the weekend, I'll let you know. I plan on
>doing the same thing this weekend (building from scratch).
>
>Victor Marneweck wrote in message <3adfe527$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>I have installed a number of RedHat 7 servers. The product (IMO) is good
>>and easy to install. The resources are excellent. So far no problems with
>>any.
>><toor> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>news:9aiihk$o33$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>> I am thinking of making my own linux system, is it worth the trouble. I
>>> checked out the documents from http://www.linuxfromscratch.com/
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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From: Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I change Screen Resolution in Gnome or KDE
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:54:10 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Just, as root, backup /etc/X11/XF86Config (no guarantees that the path
> > is correct) and run XF86Setup from the prompt. It'll do just as nicely.
> It never worked for me... I had to tinker with the configuration
> by hand, anyway wasn't so 'scaring' and if you never start to
> look into the configuration files, you will never learn how to
> fix the problems when these kind of 'setup tools' won't work...
> (IMHO of course).
I know. I had to enter a modeline for my monitor to get it to 80 hz too.
But in my experience most systems get a "close enough" configuration out
of XF86Setup. It does a better job than that hellspawn Xconfigurator
anyway (although I have to admit that the last time I attempted
statutory rape with Xconfigurator was on redhat 6, my last redhat)
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