Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3, cron and mail script output

2012-11-23 Thread Banyan He
check out the crontab file if you have these,

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root ===> that's what you are looking for
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly


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On 2012-11-23 3:52 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a '/etc/cron.daily/push-to-backup' script which the content is:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/rsync [... long options line ...]
> echo "finished pushing to the backup"
>
> Launched manually, it's OK.
>
> Waiting for cron to execute it,
> In the "/var/log/cron", I see the starting time and the finish time, and
> I see it take about 10 minutes to make the job. That's very fine, it's
> the expected executioon time
>
> The problem is: I get no EMail.
> In "/etc/cron.daily/", I also have "logwatch", whose EMail comes to me
> without problem.
> "/etc/aliases" is already setup to forward root and cron emails to my
> email adress.
> Testing the MTA (Exim) on command-line: success (anyway, logwatch also
> success on sending email)
>
>
> On another centos5 machine, the same script, the mail is sent.
>
> On the Centos 6:
> $ rpm -aq | grep cron
> crontabs-1.10-33.el6.noarch
> cronie-1.4.4-7.el6.x86_64
> cronie-anacron-1.4.4-7.el6.x86_64
>
> On the Centos 5:
> $ rpm -aq | grep cron
> crontabs-1.10-8
> vixie-cron-4.1-81.el5
> anacron-2.3-45.el5.centos
>
>
> How to setup the Centos6 system so that the cron sends me an email the
> script output??
>

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Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3, cron and mail script output

2012-11-23 Thread Birta Levente
On 23/11/2012 10:28, Banyan He wrote:
> check out the crontab file if you have these,

If it's centos 6, maybe /etc/anacrontab


>
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root ===> that's what you are looking for
> HOME=/
>
> # run-parts
> 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
>
> 
> Banyan He
> Blog: http://www.rootong.com
> Email: ban...@rootong.com
>
> On 2012-11-23 3:52 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I have a '/etc/cron.daily/push-to-backup' script which the content is:
>>
>>  #!/bin/bash
>>  /usr/bin/rsync [... long options line ...]
>>  echo "finished pushing to the backup"
>>
>> Launched manually, it's OK.
>>
>> Waiting for cron to execute it,
>> In the "/var/log/cron", I see the starting time and the finish time, and
>> I see it take about 10 minutes to make the job. That's very fine, it's
>> the expected executioon time
>>
>> The problem is: I get no EMail.
>> In "/etc/cron.daily/", I also have "logwatch", whose EMail comes to me
>> without problem.
>> "/etc/aliases" is already setup to forward root and cron emails to my
>> email adress.
>> Testing the MTA (Exim) on command-line: success (anyway, logwatch also
>> success on sending email)
>>
>>
>> On another centos5 machine, the same script, the mail is sent.
>>
>> On the Centos 6:
>>  $ rpm -aq | grep cron
>>  crontabs-1.10-33.el6.noarch
>>  cronie-1.4.4-7.el6.x86_64
>>  cronie-anacron-1.4.4-7.el6.x86_64
>>
>> On the Centos 5:
>>  $ rpm -aq | grep cron
>>  crontabs-1.10-8
>>  vixie-cron-4.1-81.el5
>>  anacron-2.3-45.el5.centos
>>
>>
>> How to setup the Centos6 system so that the cron sends me an email the
>> script output??
>>
>
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Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3, cron and mail script output

2012-11-23 Thread Philippe Naudin
Le ven. 23 nov. 2012 10:52:50 CET, Mihamina Rakotomandimby a écrit:

> Hi all
> 
> I have a '/etc/cron.daily/push-to-backup' script which the content is:
> 
>#!/bin/bash
>/usr/bin/rsync [... long options line ...]
>echo "finished pushing to the backup"
> 
> Launched manually, it's OK.
> 
> Waiting for cron to execute it,
> In the "/var/log/cron", I see the starting time and the finish time, and 
> I see it take about 10 minutes to make the job. That's very fine, it's 
> the expected executioon time
> ...

Compare the execution time to the timeout option of your smtp server.

I don't know about exim, but on my postfix I added :
smtpd_timeout = 30m

Another possibility is to "spool" the mail, something like :
rsync ...options... 2>&1 > LOGFILE
echo -e "finished pushing to the backup \n$LOGFILE"

hth,

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Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3, cron and mail script output

2012-11-23 Thread Philippe Naudin
Le ven. 23 nov. 2012 10:42:19 CET, Philippe Naudin a écrit:

> ...
> rsync ...options... 2>&1 > LOGFILE
> echo -e "finished pushing to the backup \n$LOGFILE"

Nonsense, sorry.

If the output is short, you can do :
LOGS=$(rsync ... 2>&1)
echo -e "finished pushing to the backup \n$LOGS"

I you expect longer output :
rsync ...options... 2>&1 > LOGFILE
echo -e "finished pushing to the backup"
cat LOGFILE

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CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2012:1484 

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-1484.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently 
syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) 

i386:
b6d922ec05a4381ae519dcd659189ebda4b9632f9cf9ee2bdd5447909c6ebfbf  
libvirt-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.i686.rpm
3dc90ea49730597ac47467717b7b0d23f052162dae95d44b98bb824f4d941a84  
libvirt-client-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.i686.rpm
58484d43f486f31d356a5c8e00ed14fe0606ba19e21b03bf290aad9b39df7159  
libvirt-devel-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.i686.rpm
f39720ed7cc14ddf6541296015b7567d0eae6e9b137359768ab4b045d9627d2e  
libvirt-python-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
7e71a00bcf5d2e5b186cbcfd469aa39e2a53277dc4f6ae742158d1408f8cdfd9  
libvirt-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.x86_64.rpm
3dc90ea49730597ac47467717b7b0d23f052162dae95d44b98bb824f4d941a84  
libvirt-client-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.i686.rpm
08dee0084a6bf09c20890e2c944df93165a3524030102c49fab8d57e3240d71c  
libvirt-client-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.x86_64.rpm
58484d43f486f31d356a5c8e00ed14fe0606ba19e21b03bf290aad9b39df7159  
libvirt-devel-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.i686.rpm
4dc8c3e53d82288ce4cf093ace97379af95a414c831579f4f23f4d0384beb643  
libvirt-devel-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.x86_64.rpm
6f06422d56fd6a557f72a173bf20c2ee04bbb7c7c34e3d6c5d61486e1a8632cb  
libvirt-lock-sanlock-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.x86_64.rpm
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libvirt-python-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.x86_64.rpm

Source:
49a85820551f900036ab6c59019bbfb3d8f268efdcad150367f818f0425055ce  
libvirt-0.9.10-21.el6_3.6.src.rpm



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Re: [CentOS] cannot install glibc.i686 on x86_64

2012-11-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Johnny Hughes wrote on Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:11:17 -0600:

Thank you both for the replies.
This was my own mistake combined with some depsolving weirdness of yum.

I have 386 and 686 excluded from the repo's because of the greediness to 
install all versions of a package. At least in earlier versions of the 5.x 
series.

When I first hit the error I checked and commented out the line. But there 
was no change with the error. I looked on mirror.centos.org and there was 
no glibc-common.i686. (Didn't look in updates then, but did now, there's 
really none.)

My mistake was that I commented out the exclude for the base repo, but not 
for updates. After commenting out for updates there is no problem to get 
glibc.i686. And it doesn't ask for glibc-common.

Seems there is a dependency in the i686 package that is resolved by the 
x86_64 package of glibc-common, but as I was accidentally trying to 
install an older version of glibc.i686 the installed newer version didn't 
match.



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Re: [CentOS] Slow login to system without internet connection

2012-11-23 Thread Peter Eckel
Hi Hakan, 

>  "UseDns no" doesn't  solve the problem because  GSS Api needs reverse 
> lookup.

good point. I disable the GSS API along with some other things in routine 
initial server hardening anyway so this did not occur to me. 

> If (do not need GSS Authentication) then
>   put "GSSAPIAuthentication no" in the host /etc/ssh/sshd_config
> else
>  put your server ip and server name in the client  /etc/hosts
>  "xxx.xxx..xxx yourserver.name"
>  :)

I'd rather put the client IP address in the server's /etc/hosts ...

Best regards, 

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Re: [CentOS] cannot install glibc.i686 on x86_64

2012-11-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 11/23/2012 06:46 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote on Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:11:17 -0600:
>
> Thank you both for the replies.
> This was my own mistake combined with some depsolving weirdness of yum.
>
> I have 386 and 686 excluded from the repo's because of the greediness to 
> install all versions of a package. At least in earlier versions of the 5.x 
> series.
>
> When I first hit the error I checked and commented out the line. But there 
> was no change with the error. I looked on mirror.centos.org and there was 
> no glibc-common.i686. (Didn't look in updates then, but did now, there's 
> really none.)
>
> My mistake was that I commented out the exclude for the base repo, but not 
> for updates. After commenting out for updates there is no problem to get 
> glibc.i686. And it doesn't ask for glibc-common.
>
> Seems there is a dependency in the i686 package that is resolved by the 
> x86_64 package of glibc-common, but as I was accidentally trying to 
> install an older version of glibc.i686 the installed newer version didn't 

There is a better way to only get the i[3,6]86 packages you want and not
get the rest.

Use this option in yum.conf INSTEAD of excluding i386/i686 packages:

multilib_policy=best

Here is some info on this option:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Software_Management_Guide/ch04s07.html

The only problem is that for CentOS-5.x anaconda initially installs with
the equivalent setting of "all" ... so what I do on new installs is a
minimal install, remove i[3,6]86 rpms, add "multilib_policy=best" to
/etc/yum.conf, then configure the server the way I want.

You can add specific i[3,6]86 packages and they will continue to get
updates, etc ... BUT, only x86_64 will be used when installing new
packages unless you specifically also install i[3,6]86

This is the default for CentOS-6, except anaconda actually installs this
way too, so you don't need to remove i[3,6]86 packages.




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Re: [CentOS] ip6tables REJECT target 3s timeout

2012-11-23 Thread Markus Falb
On 22.11.2012 12:21, Markus Falb wrote:
> On 21.11.2012 17:40, Markus Falb wrote:

>> connect(3, {sa_family=AF_INET6, sin6_port=htons(80), inet_pton(AF_INET6,
>> "2a02:180::1::551f:b966", &sin6_addr), sin6_flowinfo=0,
>> sin6_scope_id=0}, 28

> There are 2 destination unreachables sent, one immediate and the second
> after 3 seconds. There are also 2 log entries from ip6tables. It looks
> like the connect() is really trying a second time.

btw, on CentOS 6 the timeout is 1 second instead of 3, but the questions
remains the same.

Why is a retry necessary? The kernel says no, but it is retried anyways.
Why? Is it CentOS/RHEL specific?

I realize that I got not many answers. Do you know of a better place to
ask such things?
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[CentOS] Long time away for Centos installs, need some info

2012-11-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have not touched my Centos systems for over a year; it is time to get 
current to do some new, interesting things.

So of course, 6.3, but which install?

I run a local repo that I rsync from a mirror near me.  So I believe I 
can use the Netinstall iso, but which one?

How do I determine if I have a i386 or x86_64 processor?

If x86_64 how do I determine if I use EFI or not?


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Re: [CentOS] Long time away for Centos installs, need some info

2012-11-23 Thread Digimer
On 11/23/2012 02:24 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have not touched my Centos systems for over a year; it is time to get 
> current to do some new, interesting things.
> 
> So of course, 6.3, but which install?
> 
> I run a local repo that I rsync from a mirror near me.  So I believe I 
> can use the Netinstall iso, but which one?
> 
> How do I determine if I have a i386 or x86_64 processor?
> 
> If x86_64 how do I determine if I use EFI or not?

Almost all systems sold in the last few years are 64 bit, so if in
doubt, try installing. If the CPU is 32 bit only, it'll fail to install
almost immediately. If you know what CPU you have, you can look it up on
the manufacturer's website or on wikipedia to see what features it has.

As for what media, well, that depends entirely on how often you plan to
(re)install and what your bandwidth costs. It also depends on what you
want to use CentOS for. For me, I usually use the minimal install and
just install what I need, but it's not at all user friendly as almost
nothing but the bare system is installed (not even man pages!).

Welcome back :)

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Re: [CentOS] Long time away for Centos installs, need some info

2012-11-23 Thread Bill Maltby (C4B)
On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 14:24 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 

> How do I determine if I have a i386 or x86_64 processor?
less /proc/cpuinfo ?

> 
> If x86_64 how do I determine if I use EFI or not?
I don't know that much, but would the flags from the above indicate?

> 

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Re: [CentOS] Long time away for Centos installs, need some info

2012-11-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz

On 11/23/2012 02:30 PM, Digimer wrote:
> On 11/23/2012 02:24 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> I have not touched my Centos systems for over a year; it is time to get
>> current to do some new, interesting things.
>>
>> So of course, 6.3, but which install?
>>
>> I run a local repo that I rsync from a mirror near me.  So I believe I
>> can use the Netinstall iso, but which one?
>>
>> How do I determine if I have a i386 or x86_64 processor?
>>
>> If x86_64 how do I determine if I use EFI or not?
> Almost all systems sold in the last few years are 64 bit, so if in
> doubt, try installing. If the CPU is 32 bit only, it'll fail to install
> almost immediately. If you know what CPU you have, you can look it up on
> the manufacturer's website or on wikipedia to see what features it has.
>
> As for what media, well, that depends entirely on how often you plan to
> (re)install and what your bandwidth costs. It also depends on what you
> want to use CentOS for. For me, I usually use the minimal install and
> just install what I need, but it's not at all user friendly as almost
> nothing but the bare system is installed (not even man pages!).

But what is the difference for the x86_64-netinstall vs 
x86_84-netinstall-EFI?


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Re: [CentOS] Long time away for Centos installs, need some info

2012-11-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz

On 11/23/2012 02:37 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 14:24 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> 
>> How do I determine if I have a i386 or x86_64 processor?
> less /proc/cpuinfo ?

So I need the liveCD to boot to get to this point?  Which one.

Oh, my current systems are running Centos 5.4 (I think) and only have 
256Mb and 512Mb memory.  To go to 6.n, I need more memory, like 1Gb.  So 
I have a couple systems on the floor that I dropped new drives into so 
they don't have a running OS yet.

>
>> If x86_64 how do I determine if I use EFI or not?
> I don't know that much, but would the flags from the above indicate?

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Re: [CentOS] Long time away for Centos installs, need some info

2012-11-23 Thread Radu Anghel
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Robert Moskowitz  wrote:
>
> On 11/23/2012 02:37 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
>> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 14:24 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> 
>>> How do I determine if I have a i386 or x86_64 processor?
>> less /proc/cpuinfo ?
>
> So I need the liveCD to boot to get to this point?  Which one.
>
> Oh, my current systems are running Centos 5.4 (I think) and only have
> 256Mb and 512Mb memory.  To go to 6.n, I need more memory, like 1Gb.  So
> I have a couple systems on the floor that I dropped new drives into so
> they don't have a running OS yet.
>

The i386 one should boot on both 32/64bit platforms, but with only
256/512M of RAM I don't think you can install CenOS 6.x.

The CPU flag you're looking for in /proc/cpuinfo is "lm" (Long Mode).
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Re: [CentOS] Long time away for Centos installs, need some info

2012-11-23 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 02:54:41PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> On 11/23/2012 02:30 PM, Digimer wrote:
> > On 11/23/2012 02:24 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >> I have not touched my Centos systems for over a year; it is time to get
> >> current to do some new, interesting things.
> >>
> >> So of course, 6.3, but which install?
> >>
> >> I run a local repo that I rsync from a mirror near me.  So I believe I
> >> can use the Netinstall iso, but which one?
> >>
> >> How do I determine if I have a i386 or x86_64 processor?
> >>
> >> If x86_64 how do I determine if I use EFI or not?
> > Almost all systems sold in the last few years are 64 bit, so if in
> > doubt, try installing. If the CPU is 32 bit only, it'll fail to install
> > almost immediately. If you know what CPU you have, you can look it up on
> > the manufacturer's website or on wikipedia to see what features it has.
> >
> > As for what media, well, that depends entirely on how often you plan to
> > (re)install and what your bandwidth costs. It also depends on what you
> > want to use CentOS for. For me, I usually use the minimal install and
> > just install what I need, but it's not at all user friendly as almost
> > nothing but the bare system is installed (not even man pages!).
> 
> But what is the difference for the x86_64-netinstall vs 
> x86_84-netinstall-EFI?

the latter is for EFI systems (EFI instead of BIOS), while the latter
would be for traditional BIOS.
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Re: [CentOS] Long time away for Centos installs, need some info

2012-11-23 Thread Bill Maltby (C4B)
On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 21:12 +0100, Radu Anghel wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Robert Moskowitz  
> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/23/2012 02:37 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 14:24 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>

> The i386 one should boot on both 32/64bit platforms, but with only
> 256/512M of RAM I don't think you can install CenOS 6.x.
IIRC, 512 s/b enough for a text-mode install.
> 
> The CPU flag you're looking for in /proc/cpuinfo is "lm" (Long Mode).
> 

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Re: [CentOS] Long time away for Centos installs, need some info

2012-11-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 11/23/2012 03:26 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 21:12 +0100, Radu Anghel wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Robert Moskowitz  
>> wrote:
>>> On 11/23/2012 02:37 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
 On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 14:24 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> 
>> The i386 one should boot on both 32/64bit platforms, but with only
>> 256/512M of RAM I don't think you can install CenOS 6.x.
> IIRC, 512 s/b enough for a text-mode install.

And then you can't work with your partitions.  You are stuck with the 
defaults.  That is only one challenge with text-mode install that I 
never liked.  I accept that I need new systems with 1Gb.  The Compaq 
SSFs I have are around 15 years old and cannot support more memory.  
Time for somethings a little newer.

>> The CPU flag you're looking for in /proc/cpuinfo is "lm" (Long Mode).
>> 
>

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Re: [CentOS] cannot install glibc.i686 on x86_64

2012-11-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Johnny Hughes wrote on Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:16:41 -0600:

> multilib_policy=best

Perfect, thanks!
I've never heard of this option before. I've been actively following the 
list during the first major CentOS 5 releases and I should have noticed it 
:-)
I added it immediately to some systems now.

I didn't know the problem exists only because of anaconda greediness on 
first package options installation. In that case I may not have needed to 
exclude at all since I do the initial install with custom kickstart files 
that install only core plus the packages I want. Good to know.

Again, thanks!

Kai


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Re: [CentOS] Long time away for Centos installs, need some info

2012-11-23 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 11/23/2012 08:26 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 21:12 +0100, Radu Anghel wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Robert Moskowitz  
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/23/2012 02:37 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
 On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 14:24 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> The i386 one should boot on both 32/64bit platforms, but with only
>> 256/512M of RAM I don't think you can install CenOS 6.x.
> IIRC, 512 s/b enough for a text-mode install.
>>
>> The CPU flag you're looking for in /proc/cpuinfo is "lm" (Long Mode).
>> 

I've got a couple of VMs running minimal 6.3 with 256 MB.

They're only good for testing purposes against very low activity stuff
but they run quite happily.

Just don't try running '# yum update' though. They crash real good :-)

Cheers,

  Phil..

-- 
currently (ab)using
CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow
Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal




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