Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL server hardware recommendation

2005-11-23 Thread kashani
, but I've had good luck with the smartarray cards and Linux over the years. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-22 Thread kashani
most of us are in the same boat. As long as Gentoo facilitates the Genius moments as well as keeping me a bit safer during the Befuddled moments it's striking the right balance. You say we'll let in idiots, I say we have met the enemy and it is us. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread kashani
so they may need lots of support. Translate that into they're willing to deal with crappy processes to get the advantages and work to improve the shortcomings. I'll take that sort of idiot any day of the week. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread kashani
in my own time. On the other hand I just took a job as employee #6 at a startup in San Francisco which is sure to double the number of hours I work as well as move me cross country so maybe I'm not as smart as I thought. kashani PS: anyone in SF need a roommate? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-20 Thread kashani
to know why. I'm very interested in what your problems were, really. Do a search on the forums for problems with pam. Read the resulting fifty odd threads. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities

2005-11-19 Thread kashani
pretty much golden. However I'd still take 30 seconds to install the chain cert because I'm paranoid like that. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dinosaur Matrox Mystique: corruption

2005-11-18 Thread kashani
not do well at higher resolutions, which is why I went with the Millennium. I'd shoot for 800x600 and go from there. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - SSL certificate authorities

2005-11-16 Thread kashani
need install the cert company's intermediate cert or chain cert on your server so that the broswer can chain your new cert to a cert it already trusts. SSLCACertificateFile conf/ssl.crt/starfield-chain.crt kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-16 Thread kashani
don't think exactly what or where was ever fully hashed out. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-16 Thread kashani
I have. Moving general users to stage3 is an attempt to eliminate variables and streamline the testing that goes into a release. By streamlining the testing you can increase the actual amount of testing you can do without increasing the overhead. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] postifix update and Hylafax

2005-11-14 Thread kashani
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Re: [gentoo-user] postifix update and Hylafax

2005-11-14 Thread kashani
Joseph wrote: It looks like all local delivery mail is broken: If I send email to myself [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not going through. Looks like Postfix 2.2.5 went live. Did you overwrite your /etc/postfix/main.cf with the new config file? kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-13 Thread kashani
,???) - NAS|SAN+CFS+LVS+?dono? The storage has to reside somewhere. If that site goes down, both servers go down. You either need both servers in the same site with shared storage or figure out how to do a shared nothing backend. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-13 Thread kashani
be more problematic. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-13 Thread kashani
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: kashani wrote: Can you use maxdb as the backend for the mail system? It looks like you can build support for MaxDB into PHP, but Postfix, Courier, Cyrus, etc may be more problematic. It's mysql, actually. It should work easily, I guess. Er... well

Re: [gentoo-user] Server Mirroring...

2005-11-13 Thread kashani
? Is data integrity more important than uptime? kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendatoin for a new server

2005-11-12 Thread kashani
for a good(cost-effective) server(good with gentoo). I ebay'ed a nice HP DL360 recently as my new personal server with some break even paid web hosting. Dual 3.0Ghz Xeons, 4GB RAM, RAID card, and two 73GB 10k SCSI drives. $1500. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] new apache install

2005-11-11 Thread kashani
Nick Smith wrote: i just built a new box that will be a mail/web server, but after emerging apache the entire /etc/apache/conf does not exsist, i tried re-emerging but nothing changed. is this something im doing wrong? perhaps /etc/apache2/ ? kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 14TB filesystem problems...

2005-11-11 Thread kashani
than fdisk. However they may some quirks of their own with that much space. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Simple and lightweight SMTP server

2005-11-07 Thread kashani
for the features you want. And I suspect TLS and SSL to use far more of the CPU than the MTA itself. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread kashani
*. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread kashani
combination of updates from Postfix 2.0.x to 2.1.x would cause queue corruption. The recommended way to update was to shut Postfix down while emerging. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread kashani
downtime. It's not always the case, but the odds are much more in your favor in this scenerio. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] a few Mysql upgrade questions

2005-11-02 Thread kashani
build would need to be updated would be keen. Again not the end of the world, but I'd rather not be building a bunch of custom packages if I can help it. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread kashani
root -p drop database test; drop database mysql; exit mysql -u root -p mysql-20051102.txt mysql -u root -p flush privileges; exit kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread kashani
. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread kashani
Jeff Smelser wrote: On Wednesday 02 November 2005 02:23 pm, kashani wrote: Because once you start caring about your db that much it's usually easier to setup a crap box that replicates off your master. Then you can lock the whole db on your slave and do a mysqldump without causing

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

2005-11-02 Thread kashani
Jeff Smelser wrote: On Wednesday 02 November 2005 05:47 pm, kashani wrote: So yes, if your db is 20 GB or less, what I mentioned will probably work without too much trouble. If your db is 100 GB or larger, you're likely spending enough on hardware and software to solve your issues

[gentoo-user] OT: top quotes, html mail, and binary jokes

2005-10-31 Thread kashani
up every six weeks (well the math is new) like clockwork, perhaps it is time to create a FAQ detailing the arguments and generally agreed on conclusions we'll all seen countless times. kashani, anxiously awaiting the drawn out discussion this may provoke, but willing to live

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: top quotes, html mail, and binary jokes

2005-10-31 Thread kashani
Jorge Almeida wrote: On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, kashani wrote: usefulness for the inarticulate), and top posting (I blame Pine). Why? The semi-factual answer is because bottom posting was the norm until Pine appeared on the scene or at least that's the story according to apocryphal Internet

Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports

2005-10-29 Thread kashani
-neg does tend to solve the problem, but there are significant barriers to doing this in many enviroments. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Dependencies

2005-10-28 Thread kashani
on this server (it should run email stuff only). So what to do? Gentoo doesn't have a libs build for Postgres or Mysql so you get the whole package. There has been talk of doing a client install, but I don't know if any progress has been made on that. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Veritas Backup Exec 10d

2005-10-27 Thread kashani
lib-compat and see how much of your list that gets you. Most binary packages require lib-compat on just about any Linux distro. Assuming you can get all the libs you need I'd force the install rather than try to inject everything you need into your rpm db. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports

2005-10-26 Thread kashani
. Don't know if that's a switch thing or a Linux thing. Setting auto negotiate works best these days though there is quite a bit of documentation that says the opposite from 4-6 years ago when that wasn't always the case. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports

2005-10-25 Thread kashani
is a year or two newer than 2. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread kashani
like imap-proxy. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread kashani
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: kashani wrote: 1. Block mail up front. Use greylisting as it stops spam before it enters the MTA's queue. This keeps 90% of my spam from even entering the more resounce intensive filtering processes. This is a very effective filter. However, it does greatly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: stealth ethernet

2005-10-19 Thread kashani
Have you tried just bringing up the interface without an IP like the article mentioned? That's always worked for me in BSD and Solaris, can't imagine Gentoo is going to be too different. This seems like far too much speculation and wackiness for something that's pretty straightforward. kashani

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtual Mailhost Setup Question.

2005-10-17 Thread kashani
with the proper regex stuff and tracking of addresses it's has already responded to. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 2300 questions

2005-10-16 Thread kashani
couldn't load both in 2.4... but I think there is only one driver now in 2.6... or least that's all I could find. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage cache - slow, slower, slowest ever

2005-10-12 Thread kashani
the fix would be two separate copies of portage. One for the machine and one to serve out of rsync that doesn't have the cdb stuff. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread kashani
/etc/sasl2/smtpd.conf pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login /etc/conf.d/saslauthd SASLAUTHD_OPTS= SASLAUTHD_OPTS=${SASLAUTH_MECH} -a pam /etc/init.d/saslauthd restart /etc/init.d/postfix restart kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] POSTFIX and SASL

2005-10-05 Thread kashani
have you changed or added a firewall recently? Firewalls that inspect and protect protocols usually break smtp-auth. On a Cisco Pix you'll need to set smtp fixup or something like that. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Gentoo mirror

2005-10-05 Thread kashani
mirror. Once the proxy is set add this to the other machines' /etc/make.conf http_proxy=proxyhost.yourdomain.com:3128 kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Network collisions

2005-10-04 Thread kashani
. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery

2005-10-03 Thread kashani
Mark Shields wrote: qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. Didn't he say something about a simple MTA? :-) kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery

2005-10-03 Thread kashani
tiesman wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:03:39AM -0500, kashani wrote: Mark Shields wrote: qmail! I use it on my home server and I love it. Didn't he say something about a simple MTA? :-) Exactly kashani. I do thank you Mark, for a quick answer. But can you also give me an example

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a network

2005-09-29 Thread kashani
. Daniel what subnet are you using for those IP's or better yet, what subnet did you ISP tell you to use when they assigned those to you. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Web mail suggestions...

2005-09-27 Thread kashani
to subjugate for the past couple of hours? kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Web mail suggestions...

2005-09-27 Thread kashani
://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-378684.html And for the hell of it how does one get filtering to work in horde2/imp3? Strangely I can pull up the filter interface if I type the URL in manually, but can't make IMP put a link to it anywhere. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread kashani
their personal domain. We didn't do retarded things like that either. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix receives OK, but won't send to internet

2005-09-23 Thread kashani
of the gear involved which isn't always the case. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail configuration problem

2005-09-19 Thread kashani
Postfix and also recommend aliasing root mail to an unprivileged account and reading the mail there. Or you'll have to use mbox format. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Load Balancing / Redundant Network ?

2005-09-18 Thread kashani
to be plugged into the same switch or have things changed in the technology recently? I think the failure that the original author is trying to plan for is a switch failure not a NIC failure. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Load Balancing / Redundant Network ?

2005-09-15 Thread kashani
not sure it'll work. I suspect that eth0 and eth1 will stay up as far as the local machine is concerned and won't move the virtual IP around. None of these ideas are great, but might get you thinking about something that might work. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Any interest in a postfix/milter bridge?

2005-09-14 Thread kashani
to shoot themselves in the foot performance-wise. In any case you might want to check out this how-to which use Anomy Sanitizer to do basically the same thing. http://www.advosys.ca/papers/postfix-filtering.html kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] to mail or not to mail

2005-09-13 Thread kashani
server. sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a bad test because ssmtp is not able to deliver locally. ssmtp is realyy just a sendmail work a like binary that can be used from the commandline. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-08 Thread kashani
. However feel free to get your hands dirty in iptables you may enjoy it and find it useful especially if you're a full time security guy. I've been there and have neither the interest nor time to do something by hand with decent tools availible. kashani, who found Fortran 77 a vast relief

Re: [gentoo-user] what happened to php and mod_php?

2005-09-07 Thread kashani
of the new split between php4 and php5. mod-php-5 is in /usr/portage/dev-php5/ now though how you would use or active it I'm not sure. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo router redundancy via Ucarp?

2005-09-06 Thread kashani
Halabi and Danny McPherson. It's a bit Cisco centric, but very readable and has a number of good real world examples. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo router redundancy via Ucarp?

2005-09-04 Thread kashani
make sense. I don't know how much you know about routing and this could have easily grown into four or five pages giving all the background info. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT: linux user groups in Chicago

2005-08-26 Thread kashani
some night. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problem

2005-08-23 Thread kashani
the ntpd setup allows for an immediate sync via ntpdate before starting the daemon. To fix this I'd shut down ntpd, run ntpdate 192.168.7.1, and then start ntpd again. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-15 Thread kashani
ago. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recomendations for web stats in php

2005-08-08 Thread kashani
with a remote call. I had to have just such a talk with a site recently after they ended up on Howard Stern. It nearly took down the web servers before we figured out what was causing the performance issues. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread kashani
better overall availibility though again that depends on what sort of backend you have or are planning to build. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread kashani
in the queue till they expire. I find it more efficient to bounce the emails up front rather than have them travel through the system twice. YMMV. I'd recommend against any sort of blacklisting. This hits it spot on. http://www.acme.com/mail_filtering/shame_frameset.html kashani -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread kashani
of it can done on any other MTA once you know the concept. The author is also using very conservative hardware specs so you get an idea of exactly what sort of resources it might use on your system. http://www.acme.com/mail_filtering/introduction_frameset.html kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread kashani
as it is to increase them IMO. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing how secure a server is...

2005-08-02 Thread kashani
are not. I once had massive load balancer failures across three geographic sites because of an unauthorized port scan by out new security director. Yes they shouldn't have locked up when send a weird packet, but we'd have avoided quite a bit of downtime if we had known what to look for. kashani

Re: [gentoo-user] Matlab under gentoo

2005-07-29 Thread kashani
noticed many commercial programs such like Cadence PSD, which have this problem no matter how 'new' their products are. Why don't those companies solve this problem in newly released products? You might want to emerge sys-libs/lib-compat That'll usually solve the problem. kashani -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] New MySQL doc (update 3)

2005-07-13 Thread kashani
/viewtopic-t-282209.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-225581.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-206368.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-150044.html kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] New MySQL doc

2005-07-11 Thread kashani
. Nice job. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/ss breaks Apps

2005-07-08 Thread kashani
? mkdir /var/log/portage echo PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage /etc/make.conf kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Generic What installed this?

2005-07-08 Thread kashani
/serial in *... ] dragonfly ~ # qpkg didn't seem to go backward from a file name. What other program can I run to discover that? qpkg seems to work okay for me. laxlxns02 ~ # qpkg -f /etc/init.d/serial sys-apps/baselayout * kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSpserver xinitd

2005-06-02 Thread kashani
the xinetd to the runlevel or ??? At minimum you'll need to edit /etc/xinetd.conf and remove the localhost only line. Then start xinetd. And finally add it to the default run level so that it starts on boot. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way to keep a networkcard into 100mbit full duplex

2005-05-24 Thread kashani
-negotiation usually doesn't. --kashani That said things tend to be better than they were five years ago, but you still run into a number of cases where the popular wisdom is true. If you're dead set on having it work everytime you should look into hard setting your network card to full 100

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-19 Thread kashani
-2k users testing a package and bitching if something goes wrong on the forums it is at least as accurate as any real QA team I have dealt with. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo discrimination

2005-05-18 Thread kashani
, by the same people. It finally stopped when I said: Thanks for the Ubuntu disk, but I use Gentoo. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mod_rewrite

2005-05-16 Thread kashani
are of course more then welcome. TIA Patrick mod_rewrite is part of Apache by default at least in my Apache1 installation. Can't imagine it's changed in Apache2. Try grep rewrite /etc/apache2/conf/apache.conf and you'll likely see it. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] The NPTL difference

2005-05-16 Thread kashani
. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] The NPTL difference

2005-05-16 Thread kashani
A. Khattri wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2005, kashani wrote: completing them any faster than the old server. However load remains a steady 0.10-0.20 whether there are 300 threads or 500. This appears to be the main benefit of the new threading. Better scalabilty and more efficient use of resources

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache2 things vhost directories are not directories?

2005-05-15 Thread kashani
None Order deny,allow Deny from all /Directory So for each vhost I have to define a directory and give it the access I want. Here's the config for one of my vhosts. [EMAIL PROTECTED] kashani $ more /etc/apache/conf/vhosts/badapple.net.conf # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-www/apache

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS entries

2005-05-09 Thread kashani
, then there is no need for a second or third MX record. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS entries

2005-05-09 Thread kashani
, then there is no need for a second or third MX record. kashani Really? So if I would only use an MX record that points mydomain.com to mydomain.com with a priority of 1, it isn't even necessary? Yep that's the way it works. On the otherhand I was mentioning it more for completeness than an actual suggestion. I'd go

Re: [gentoo-user] installing big qmail server ... where to start?

2005-05-05 Thread kashani
support async filesystems, aka anything journaled. The rest should be pretty self explanatory. That's off the top of my head... hopefully it highlighted some issues that you might have missed. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread kashani
. Or any other font. And so on. kashani, running 1900x1200 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread kashani
gentoo.org as a domain that prefers text emails? Or setting up a list only account, like say $username-list, with its own settings in your MUA and turning off html emails for that account. That'll keep you from having this same conversation on any of the other tech lists. kashani -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-20 Thread kashani
the vim with color syntax standardization. Once you get used to syntax highlighting you can never go back. Plus there is nothing like half your named.conf shifting to red to let you know you typo'ed a } somewhere. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Admin system documentation

2005-04-18 Thread kashani
the reason why you use those. And don't forget to update the docs and machines if that ever changes or you'll be fighting for three hours on a Sunday when something isn't quite kosher. kashani -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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