This is an answer to a question I started to post, but then decided to
research instead. I know many readers of this list use the feature I'm
describing.
When Xorg was upgraded to version 7.4, the historic ability to shut down X
with Control+Alt+Backspace became a non-default option. The
On Jun 5, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
i'm trying to walk thru a short program and see what's actually
happening.
can anybody remind me how to send a file file redirect to ./
a.out?
gdb myprog
(gdb) run myfile
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In response to Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org:
For some 'issue' I have to install an old version FreeBSD: 4.7-p28. The
ISO of 4.7 I have found, but how to get to p28?
That code is still in the version control system, all you need to do is
configure cvsup to
Hello, Freebsd-questions.
After one of new crash I have this:
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type show
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:31:11PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
I added the winefish package (LaTeX editor) and installed the
print/latex port. During the installation/building of the latex port,
I received a message that the version being installed was over 5 years
old. When I tried to
bf bf20...@yahoo.com writes:
Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done.
Well *porting* TeX Live is certainly not trivial! But actually
installing it as free-standing software is not too hard.
Get it from
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:20:10PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
Running the latex command on a .tex file, I keep getting this error:
xcolor.sty 140 Undefined control
xcolor.sty 140 Emergency stop.
*exit code: 1
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
bf bf20...@yahoo.com writes:
Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done.
Well *porting* TeX Live is certainly not trivial! But
Luke Dean wrote:
This is an answer to a question I started to post, but then decided to
research instead. I know many readers of this list use the feature I'm
describing.
When Xorg was upgraded to version 7.4, the historic ability to shut
down X
with Control+Alt+Backspace became a
Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl writes:
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 07:34:07AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote:
bf bf20...@yahoo.com writes:
Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to install TeX Live.
This is not trivial, which is one of the reasons it hasn't been done.
Well *porting* TeX
print/latex port. During the installation/building of the latex port,
I received a message that the version being installed was over 5 years
old. When I tried to add latex via pkg_add, I had no success (I
assumed the package was named latex, but it wasn't found).
Winefish works, and latex
Hi there,
I got cyrus-imapd working outside a jail.
But when i want to install it within a jail it won't start.
What are the extra steps, to get cyrus-imapd working inside a jail. Is there a
simple howto available?
greetings,
Danny
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My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS
development in particular. I know I am just a relatively poor person
so I can't contribute much (maybe on the order of 20-30 euro a month),
but I keep seeing FreeBSD core team members keep mentioning we value
donations of all
Familie van der Schaft wrote:
Hi there,
I got cyrus-imapd working outside a jail.
But when i want to install it within a jail it won't start.
What are the extra steps, to get cyrus-imapd working inside a jail. Is there a
simple howto available?
Try to check logs or start the master process
My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS
development in particular. I know I am just a relatively poor person
so I can't contribute much (maybe on the order of 20-30 euro a month),
donati...@freebsd.org
and of course you may sponsor it too by improving ZFS code, or
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:08:23PM -0500, Kirk Strauser typed:
Chris Rees wrote:
Traditional:
% tar xzvf bluurgh.tgz
GNU recommended:
$ tar --extract --verbose --gunzip --file bluurgh.tgz
Seriously, why are long options encouraged?
Scripting. I almost always use long options
what some single-letter option meant. I pretty much never use them on
the command line, though.
Agreed, the long options *as an alternative* can be descriptive in scripts,
tutorials, howto's etc.
The other reason often mentioned, there being not enough letters in the
alphabet to cover all
how can i put in setenv= definition a : character?
for example i would like to set enviroment variable a to b:c in login.conf
thanks
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On 6/6/09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
how can i put in setenv= definition a : character?
for example i would like to set enviroment variable a to b:c in login.conf
It's documented in login.conf manual.
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On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 11:49:51AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar typed:
what some single-letter option meant. I pretty much never use them on
the command line, though.
Agreed, the long options *as an alternative* can be descriptive in scripts,
tutorials, howto's etc.
The other reason often
On 6/6/09, ge...@dts.su ge...@dts.su wrote:
Hello, Freebsd-questions.
After one of new crash I have this:
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or
Hello.
What options I must add to kernel? Can You tell me what I must do when
system crash next time?
On 6/6/09, ge...@dts.su ge...@dts.su wrote:
Hello, Freebsd-questions.
After one of new crash I have this:
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is
Erik,
I recieve the following message:
/usr/local/cyrus/bin ./master -D
No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging
init_kmem: kvm_openfiles failed: /dev/mem: No such file or directory
I noticed that it is the same message coming from:
/usr/local/cyrus/bin netstat -rn
netstat: kvm not
2009/6/6 ge...@dts.su
Hello.
What options I must add to kernel? Can You tell me what I must do when
system crash next time?
On 6/6/09, ge...@dts.su ge...@dts.su wrote:
Hello, Freebsd-questions.
After one of new crash I have this:
GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
Copyright 2004 Free
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 09:49:51AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
snip
Winefish works, and latex appears to be installed, but I get errors
using code I know to be flawless. I suspect this relates to
out-of-date latex on my machine.
why not print/teTeX
Because teTeX is unmaintained
Familie van der Schaft wrote:
Erik,
I recieve the following message:
/usr/local/cyrus/bin ./master -D
No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging
init_kmem: kvm_openfiles failed: /dev/mem: No such file or directory
I noticed that it is the same message coming from:
Hello.
I have this options in kernel:
makeoptions DEBUG=-g# Build kernel with gdb(1) debug symbols
options KDB
options DDB
options GDB
What I need more in kernel conf?
2009/6/6 ge...@dts.su
Hello.
What options I must add to kernel? Can You tell
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS
development in particular. I know I am just a relatively poor person
so I can't contribute much (maybe on the order of 20-30 euro a month),
for example i would like to set enviroment variable a to b:c in login.conf
It's documented in login.conf manual.
indeed i missed that.
Note that since a colon (`:') is used to separate capability entries,
a
`\c' escape sequence must be used to embed a literal colon in the
value
rsync isn't bloated and it's well written IMO. It still does only one job, and
it does it well. As you say, most common tasks can still be done with only
short options. This would change if some developer decided to add other,
unrelated functionality. But that's harder if you want to maintain
I really appreciate all the good suggestions I got from
everybody who responded.
Barry Byrne writes:
I think the simplest thing would be to write a little wrapper script, that
calls your other script.
#!/bin/sh
echo Stating Daemon Now
/path/to/mainscript
This got me to thinking
On Saturday 06 June 2009 13:47:57 Neal Hogan wrote:
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS
development in particular. I know I am just a relatively poor person
so I can't
I was just given a Gateway GT 52250 with an AMD Anthon 64 X2 Processor
3800+ with a nVidia Geforce 6150LE card.
Assuming I install the 64 bit version of FreeBSD on this machine, what
nVidea driver should I install? From what I understood, nVidia
was not producing 64 bit drivers for FreeBSD due to
nVidea driver should I install? From what I understood, nVidia
was not producing 64 bit drivers for FreeBSD due to a problem with the
FreeBSD kernel. There are none listed on the nVidea site either.
problem with FreeBSD kernel? what FreeBSD/amd64 kernel can't that i386 one
can?
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl wrote:
On Saturday 06 June 2009 13:47:57 Neal Hogan wrote:
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
My question is concerning sponsoring the FreeBSD project and ZFS
Although ZFS isn't currently listed as a project, I'm sure there's enough
interest from the community.
Just to clarify. . .
I'm not laughing at just the response, which was appropriate. I was laughing
at the combination of response and responder.
well - it's quite a big difference between
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote:
sorry: should have been bounce back. when i responded to the middle
of
an on-going debate last night, i received an automated reply that my
post
had to be approved because there were too many
I have a Teclast TL-C300 usb media player which works fine with Slackware 12.2
and Windows XP, but is not properly recognised by
FreeBSD.
I have other usb devices, eg camera, which all work fine, so I am guessing that
my config is OK, although I do see errors with
these devices too.
According
When the TL-C300 is plugged in after boot, it produces the following console
report:-
umass1: RockChip ROCK MP3, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2 on uhub2
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Medium not present
(probe0:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Unretryable error
da0 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0
da0: Teclast Digital Player 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 1900MB (3892224
On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote:
I did notice a driver on the nVidia page for FreeBSD x86, version #
185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports
is: 180.44, which has actually been superseded four times since its
release by nVidia.
Would the x86 driver work in
Hey guys...
I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the
system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for
backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty.
When booting after an improper shutdown, the system starts the backgrounds
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:09:15 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
nVidea driver should I install? From what I understood, nVidia
was not producing 64 bit drivers for FreeBSD due to a problem with
the FreeBSD kernel. There are none listed on the nVidea site either.
system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for
backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty.
When booting after an improper shutdown, the system starts the backgrounds
fsck as usual and on all the other partitions, seem to take the normal
turn off
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100
Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote:
On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote:
I did notice a driver on the nVidia page for FreeBSD x86, version #
185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports
is: 180.44, which has actually been
How can I change the Terminal title (the title shown on open instances
of Terminal on the panel in xfce) to display *only* the present
working directory. Currently they all show Terminal - dan...@bsdbox:
~, for example.
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John Nielsen. wrote:
I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the
system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for
backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty.
Some will disagree, but this almost screams for ZFS: no fsck,
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100
Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote:
On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote:
I did notice a driver on the nVidia page for FreeBSD x86, version #
185.18.14, released June 5, 2009; however, the version is the ports
is: 180.44, which has actually
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:07:23 +, Paul B. Mahol wrote
On 6/5/09, Gene f...@brightstar.bomgardner.net wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:18:42 +, Paul B. Mahol wrote
On 6/4/09, Gene f...@brightstar.bomgardner.net wrote:
Hi All:
I'm trying to get wireless working on a laptop. It works
On 6/6/09, Gene f...@brightstar.bomgardner.net wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:07:23 +, Paul B. Mahol wrote
On 6/5/09, Gene f...@brightstar.bomgardner.net wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 23:18:42 +, Paul B. Mahol wrote
On 6/4/09, Gene f...@brightstar.bomgardner.net wrote:
Hi All:
I'm
I just installed 7.2 on a 1.5TB RAID 5. I'm using about 10GB for the
system and swap, and the rest for a single large partition to be used for
backups. As of right now, the single partition, /bkup, is empty.
Some will disagree, but this almost screams for ZFS: no fsck, great RAID
support, and
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
my 6 disk system with 2 750GB disks, 2 500GB disks and 2 320GB disks
does fsck in 40 minutes. if you exclude these 320GB disk containing
system and squid cache (LOTS of files) it takes 5 minutes
That's a great example of why I like ZFS on new installations.
--
Kirk
2009/6/6 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:
what some single-letter option meant. I pretty much never use them on
the command line, though.
Agreed, the long options *as an alternative* can be descriptive in
scripts,
tutorials, howto's etc.
The other reason often mentioned,
2009/6/6 Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu:
This also works in Linux's /bin/sh which I believe is an alias
for bash so occasionally little things work differently.
Usually is, but in some it's linked to dash.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
Also, you should ONLY use
On Saturday 06 June 2009, Jerry wrote:
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:00:48 +0100
Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote:
No, in the absence of a 64 bit driver from Nvidia you'd need to use
the nv driver included in the xorg-drivers port. I had quite a
struggle to get the nv driver to give
2009/6/6 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:
Not counting the CPU and its power circuitry, I would be very suprised if
the other components on a normal motherboard pulled as much as half of
that
even when under load.
In fact a typical modern desktop computer will, when idle, draw
Hello,
try to use journaling on the backup partition, (if you do not want to
use ZFS...)
than: supose your partition is ad0s1d,
this procedure will destroy ALL data on the partition!!!
gjournal load
gjournal label ad0s1d
newfs ad0s1d.journal
edit the /etc/fstab to look like:
Having trouble mounting the ISO:
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
-f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/
mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied
mount_cd9660: /dev: Block device required
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$
Please help me figure this out.
Erik,
Thanks for your efforts.
It works!!
,Danny
- Original Message -
From: Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org
To: Familie van der Schaft fam.vandersch...@kpnplanet.nl
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: cyrus-imapd2.3 in jail
Familie
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Having trouble mounting the ISO:
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
-f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/
mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied
Regular users don't have read/write
Roland Smith wrote:
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Having trouble mounting the ISO:
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
-f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/
mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied
Regular users don't have
[Please, remove the questions@ on the reply, this is the topic for
f...@].
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:16:00PM +0400, Chagin Dmitry wrote:
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Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 10:58:11 +0400
From: ge...@dts.su
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:
Has anybody gotten a Yubikey to work with FreeBSD? It attaches as a
uhid device on both 7 and 8.
ugen5.5: Yubico at usbus5
uhid0: Yubico Yubico Yubikey Touch, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.32, addr 5 on usbus5
For those not familiar with a Yubikey it is a usb device that attaches
as a keyboard and when
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Having trouble mounting the ISO:
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
-f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/
Hello list,
Not sure if this is the right place to post, please steer me to
another list if this is the wrong place.
openoffice-3 from ports fails to build with the error
error 65280 occurred while making
/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/OOO310_m11/instsetoo_native/util
listing this
didn't realise there is a freebsd-openoffice list! sorry for the noise
2009/6/6 John . comp.j...@googlemail.com:
Hello list,
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Roland Smith wrote:
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Having trouble mounting the ISO:
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode
-f
Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask these questions. I emailed
this to Colin Percival a few weeks ago and heard nothing back, so I
figured I'd ask here.
Alex
-
Hi,
I tried to upgrade my system from 6.0-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE today,
using the procedure described on your blog page
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 09:26:05AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Gary Klinekl...@thought.org wrote:
sorry: should have been bounce back. when i responded to the
middle of
an on-going debate last night, i received an automated reply that my
Barry Byrne writes:
B I think the simplest thing would be to write a little wrapper script
B that calls your other script.
B
B #!/bin/sh
B echo Stating Daemon Now
B /path/to/mainscript
You might be better off using daemon to make sure you're detached from
the controlling terminal. Other
try to use journaling on the backup partition, (if you do not want to
use ZFS...)
is it THAT a problem to wait 5-10 minutes for fsck?
on OS that really crash RARELY. Most cases not at all.
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Familie van der Schaft wrote:
Thanks for your efforts.
It works!!
Just before you call it a day and I break your jail, check that this is
the right method to mount devfs inside a jail. I have only worked with
chrooted environments where this is fine, but at least you know what
you're
Roland Smith xs4all.nl!rsm...@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote:
Roland Smith wrote:
On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote:
Having trouble mounting the ISO:
[dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical
examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly
to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people
know what's available on the website. Before you post a question
here it might be a good idea to first search the
Hello,
Finally I put an openoffice 3.2 devel working and tested for FreeBSD 7.2
AMD64
with support for Portuguese (BR) AND English (en).
it is distributed via torrent at:
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/4938186/pt-openoffice.org-BR-3.2.20090528.tbz.4938186.TPB.torrent
Please watch out for
Hi all,
On my AMD 64 system running freebsd 7.0 I try to install tcllib. I have up to
date ports and have installed tcl86-threaded first.
pkg_info | grep threads gives:
tcl-threads-8.6.b.1_4 Tool Command Language
Installing tcllib gives the following error:
[ * ] [8.6b1] cmdline PASS
Guys,
I'm encloseing a brief C program that skips over php delimiters and a
74-byte test file. After gdb reminded me that it eats the last byte,
I was able to complete this. Am wondering if there is a better way.
Obv'ly there are other way to get past ?
2009/6/6 Alex Stangl a...@stangl.us:
It's also not clear to me whether using freebsd-update.sh is the right
approach for upgrading from 6.0-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE, or if I should
follow some alternate approach, like booting the 7.2 CD and doing a
binary upgrade from there?
I've always done
Em Sáb, 2009-06-06 às 23:13 +0200, Wojciech Puchar escreveu:
try to use journaling on the backup partition, (if you do not want to
use ZFS...)
is it THAT a problem to wait 5-10 minutes for fsck?
on OS that really crash RARELY. Most cases not at all.
You are right Puchar, but sometimes
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 11:36:33PM -0700, Steven Schlansker wrote:
On Jun 5, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
i'm trying to walk thru a short program and see what's actually
happening.
can anybody remind me how to send a file file redirect to ./
a.out?
gdb myprog
Proudly presenting The Stockholm Exhibition as a new client
We are very proud to present a new collaboration with The Stockholm Exhibition
Dabber presents it´s new way of displaying content over a time machine effekt.
We were asked to help illustrate and communicate the magnitude of a project
On 6/6/09, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote:
2009/6/6 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl:
what some single-letter option meant. I pretty much never use them on
the command line, though.
Agreed, the long options *as an alternative* can be descriptive in
scripts,
On 6/4/09, Peter fb...@peterk.org wrote:
On Thursday 04 June 2009 20:48:21 Peter wrote:
iH,
This all started with NFS not mounting at bootso, testing in VMs:
snip
Why is ping using one IP, and ssh/mount_nfs/showmount using another IP
from /etc/hosts?
Q: Where is described that name
Installed texlive from ISO, and it all works perfectly now. Thanks folks!
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