t86 from it for 24 hours, if you can.
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italize -N1`
for i in $(seq ) do
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insert
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Replacing "" above with a number. If it is not fixed, find some other
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ll rcconf
Which is cluebie-friendly. Alternatively, use what is provided by default:
% man update-rc.d
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--- Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to import the passwords from an old system? I upgraded
pwconv should do this for you. See the manpage.
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question. It would do you some
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d-essential
kernel-package
and _read_ the following:
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HTH,
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--- "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> cron jobs, but I can't seem to find where kcron saves this info to.
/etc/crontab
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sume you'll be using shadow passwords? As mentioned in another thread,
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did that?
add:
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--- Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas Adam wrote:
> > add:
>
> > eval $(lesspipe) to ~/.bash_profile
>
> Won't do much here. Darn that pesky zsh edging out bash. :P
Change it then. :P Those that use Zsh (I'm one of them) should know h
--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As I said, the cause of the problem is beyond my wild
> imagination. Is it the DPI of X? The interpretation of fonts? ...
> puzzled.
Look here:
http://linuxgazette.net/issue96/adam.html
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articles on setting up squid, dansguardian [1,2].
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1 ~ 2 weeks of hard use, Squid just seems to gradually take more and
> more RAM until its exhausted and a restart is needed...
This is configurable in squid via the tags, listed in (and documented)
/etc/squid/squid.conf. This file is very well documented.
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just not touch the
> /sbin/shutdown file, or better yet, redirect the new /sbin/shutdown file
> to /sbin/shutdown.real instead? Is that possible?
dpkg -i --force-confold /var/lib/info/dpkg/name_of_deb.deb
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> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 06:33:07PM +0200, Jochen Demuth wrote:
>
> | E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
And to think I was only talking about FAQs recently. Sigh, sigh, sigh.
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--- Paul Maser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and tried a lilo -U, but nothing has worked.
Read: http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/LostLILO
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*BUT* even then, that is poor poor poor advice, and superfluous to the
question being asked.
> This will totally blank the first 5K of space on the drive. The
> "leftovers" from
> the linux boot loader sometimes confuse Windows' installer.
No the way you originally
y, so that you do not mix
the two.
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ecture
type, be it 386,486, etc.
Also, I recommend you install 'build-essential'.
When you're lost again, use 'apt-cache search kernel-header | less' if you
find the name of the package to be elusive.
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--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks Thomas,
>
> are you saying that I don't need kernel-source at all, and
> merely the correct kernel-header would be enough?
Should be.
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actual script in /etc/init.d that is to be used, something like:
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--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> # update-rc.d local defaults start 80
> update-rc.d: error: codenumber must be a number between 0 and 99
update-rc.d local defaults 80
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al -> ../init.d/local
/etc/rc4.d/S80local -> ../init.d/local
/etc/rc5.d/S80local -> ../init.d/local
station:~#
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e main to your
sources.list. Change stable to testing or unstable according to
the distribution you are using. "deb
ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ stable main".
Then "apt-get install mplayer". (apt-cache search mplayer) -- that has a
GUI component to it, IIRC.
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erfaces". The rest is self-explanatory
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--- NikZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello. I have Debian 3.0 r2 installed on my computer. As window-manager
Repeating messages will not expedite an answer. Patience is your virtue
here. Use it in good faith, and wait.
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Again, only using aptitude. You can emulate the effect using
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not live without a GUI, the only thing
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> Why do all these packages explictly depend on mozilla-browser? Don't
> most people run Firefox now? If I just make "mozilla" launchible on the
Nope, freedom of choice is a good thing.
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--- Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> I'm not sure yet on what package to report this bug, but was wondering
> if anyone else experiences it too.
Have a look at the bugpage for 'xserver-xfree86'. If it isn't listed
there, then maybe consider fili
rc, and add:
-query
to the list of commands already there, then setup X on the client machines
to broadcast to that address, exporting their $DISPLAY as appropriate.
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How is this Debian related? Debian is not using Xorg.
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.6 kernels have been known to break X in the manner you are having. I
suggest trying a 2.4.X. The only thing I can suggest is for you to try a
2.4.X kernel and report back.
Warmly,
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out in the cold. You'll just have to wait until the kernel flushes it, or
the parent becomes active. But on the case of xdm the parent is init, so
you're probably better of either rebooting, or at a push:
telinit 1
telinit 2
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--- * Tong* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think Oliver's answer might be the only answer.
Nope:
# apt-get install apt-file && apt-file update
$ apt-file search
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Debian treated runlevels 2, 3, 4 and 5 exactely
> the same and left it to the sysadmin to modify them.
(see previous comment).
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--- Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> apt-get is flat out much better. Some people are now recommending
> aptitude as it has a more sane handling of suggests and recommends.
Horses for courses. Aptitude is *far* from a useable product.
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you would have to ask -devel about that, or do what you seem so
good at, and change it.
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e idea, and Hugo Mills (my LUG chairman) made a
set of script just for this [1]. Note though, that number of e-mails sent
does not necessarily indicate that they were helpful.
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owing up from...
The output from apt-get or aptitude or whatever it is you use would be
useful here, sine blindly showing us package versions is meaningless.
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--- Vijaya S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Setting up expect (5.41.0-1) ...
Now do:
dpkg -L | grep 'usr/bin/expect'
You should see:
/usr/bin/expect. If not, mail the output of "dpkg -L expect" here.
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--- Vijaya S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> /usr/bin/expect
So it installed just fine -- if there were dependency issues, it would not
have installed. So I have no idea what it is you're having trouble
with....
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manpages. You might also consider
posting some of the errors here to the list. You'll find them in
/var/log/messages
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ps. Of course, _really_ you shouldn't ever run
Xapps as root for security reasons. What you should do is:
su -
password:
xauth ~user/.Xauthority
export DISPLAY=:0.0
Where ~user above us the username of the person who currently has X
running.
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--- stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was wondering if there was anything like the tools that convert a
> plain
> old ASCU file to PostScript for HTML conversion?
Why to PS and then HTML? Why not text -> HTML?
txt2html - Text to HTML converter
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experienc
Making up commands is not a good practise to get into. There is no command
"ll". If you mean "ll" to be an alias for "ls -l" then you should have
stated so, since "ll" is not a standard alias at all, as far as bash is
concerned in Debian.
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--- Pete Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why not pipe the output through less .. eg:
> #> cat somedoc.txt | less
Why would you want to cat the file _and_ page it? That is a useless use of
cat here, as less accepts STDIN.
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course just press and hold SHIFT and press PGUP/PGDN, but the scrollback
availability is limited to both console and xterms.
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--- Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sound like STDOUT and STDERR
I thought this too, but dumpkeys writes to STDOUT in this instance.
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--- Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >From sid ~/.bashrc:
> # some more ls aliases
> #alias ll='ls -l'
> #alias la='ls -A'
> #alias l='ls -CF'
>
> I would guess that this would also apply to sarge
Yup
d since although it appears you're directing
stderr/stdout to "some_filename" what happens is that only stdout is sent
to "some_file". Why? Because stderr is duplicated (that's what the '&'
means) to stdout before stdout is directed to the filename. To get
at's still not a valid argument from [1]:
awk -F: '/$user/ {print $2}' ./filename
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[1] No, I don't want an obscure example, nor do I care. My point here is
that the "Useless use of Cat" scenario still applies when a program can
accept files.
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' *
644 -rw-r--r-- n6tadam n6tadam `trymr'
644 -rw-r--r-- n6tadam n6tadam `trytrytry.wav'
644 -rw-r--r-- n6tadam n6tadam `typical.png'
600 -rw--- n6tadam n6tadam `ugh.pdf'
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as an example. See the man page. :)
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a and replace it, it's a gonner.
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--- Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt
>
> then:
>
> apt-get install
^^^
Wrong. You want to do:
apt-get dselect-upgrade
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--- Jonathan Melhuish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I usually run the stable version, but I have also tried installing the
> testing
> version, to no avail. I have tried removing and re-installing both
> versions.
paste the output of:
bash -x /etc/init.d/webmin sta
--- Wanda Round <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would like to clone that to another machine hdb3 with 4.5 gb
> total (was Mandrake). Entire hard drive is 10 gb.
You'll want to read this, then:
http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother
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You can uncomment the use of "eval `dircolors -b`" in ~/.bashrc
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Ok, you don't have clickie
things but big deal. Who cares? They're usable, intuitive and don't
require lots of RAM to install. It just means that you have to use
the keyboard more often.
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e that woppps, they meant something else.
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ccupying what space? I tried df, but that is very minimalistic. I'd like
> to get a treeview of files and space in use...
> Any suggestions?
cd / && du -sk *
Is probably your best bet (it's slow, mind). Can you also paste the
output from the following commands:
df -h
it that you want to take a screendump of the console
(/dev/tty*)? If so:
setterm -dump -file ~/output.dump && \
col -b < ~/output.dump ~/screen.capture
Might help, although you'll find:
http://www.p12n.org/hacks/screendump
helpful.
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tore" on logout and a "alsactl restore" on
> login. i am guessing that somewhere there is an automated tool for this
> though.
Umm, yes, the alsa initscript handles this for you.
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dc ... that is either because
scsi-emulation is taking over it, diverting it, or it is on another
IDE channel. Again "dmesg | more" will help you there in
ascertaining that information.
There is also "discover" from the progency people which is an
attempt to detect HW
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On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 01:35:03PM -0700, Paul Maser wrote:
> Besides rebooting, how do you restart the network connections
> after making changes to /etc/network/interfaces?
> Thanks;
/etc/init.d/networking restart
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On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:08:15PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> there, I've been known to break security, implement an SUID shell
> script to hack the sendmail.cf file to change the system identity
That doesn't do anything. SUID/GID bits on shell scripts are
ignored.
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:09:35PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> /etc/init.d/networking restart
>
> It really only makes sense to use invoke-rc.d from maintainer scripts.
We had this discussion a while back. Truth is, both work just fine.
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:56:56PM -0600, Kent Andersen wrote:
> what would be the procedure for making a perfect bootable copy of a primary
> linux drive?
http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother
Will be of use to you.
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On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:56:30PM -0700, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> What could be working on my desktop system that's not working on the new
> machine to make Tahoma look nice and crisp?
http://linuxgazette.net/100/adam.html
perhaps?
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On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:01:35PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote:
> Hmm... unlike the other responders, I've done this with /sbin/ifup, but
> I'm no expert, just a humble desktop user. Perhaps the experts can shed
> light on the different approaches?
The script calls if{up,dow
pty /boot/config-$(uname -r)"
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ld
> keyboard layout back... Where is the keymap of the console configured?
1. This is a known issue.
2. It's listed on the BTS [1]
3. In short:
mv /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz /etc/console/old
dpkg-reconfigure console-data
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--- David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For several days now, update fails. Gets to the 37% mark and then waits
> for
> headers, starting around ftp://ftp.gwdg.de. Many of these yield their
Use a different mirror (see 'apt-setup').
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--- Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 May 2004 10:20, Thomas Adam wrote:
>
> > --- Adam Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> (Sorry about the long lines but they illustrate the output I'm
> >> talking about.)
>
ons < file
Then you *will* have to do:
apt-get dselect-upgrade
before you then apt-get install
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change, see the option for "ViewPort" in "man
xf86config-4" else you might find the "gvidm" package handy.
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e we are debian users, it does not make us a
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Take your arguments elsewhere.
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ezes at the same
time the journal is trying to be written to? At any case, I'd check your
logs first of all, and possibly leave top(1) idling on a spare tty.
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--- Lucas Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does this syntax look correct, I just need to add in a --pidfie to
> start-stop-deamon to have a pidfile written for the process, correct?
> Assuming I have defined LOCKDPID and STATDPID.
Why don't you run it, and see?
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ession , but don't know how to fix it. I rebooted machine, but every
> time same thing happen. I changed to log in with another user, strange
> windows disappear.
Depends on the window manager, which you failed to mention. Are you sure
these programs are not listed in ~/.xsession ?
ess 192.168.0.6
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> network 192.168.0.0
> broadcast 192.168.0.255
>
> ... instead of:
>
> auto eth1
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
For which ever iface you want a gateway to be used, just add that
directive to it:
gateway
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> package. I think the two are mutually exclusive. Any suggestion?
# apt-get install libncurses5-dev
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> whatever other packages on which the package depends?
That's fine. If you're running debian woody, see:
http://www.apt-get.org
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mp; make && su -c 'make install'
[--options] to ./configure is optional -- it depends how rich a
feature-set you want. "make install" must be run as root.
But unless you have a reason not to, I suggest using .deb packages
whenever you can.
Does that help?
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--- alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to copy the contents of one partition to another with:
> cp -afv (partition a)/* (partition b)/
Please see this:
http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/OneDiskToAnother
-- Thomas Adam
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tp://linuxgazette.net/issue96/adam.html
-- Thomas Adam
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"The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net
"TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net
" We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish
you for all of them at once
files are handled by logrotate -- you can get that to delete them on
each rotation.
-- Thomas Adam
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"The Linux Weekend Mechanic" -- http://linuxgazette.net
"TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net
" We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish
ple office suite also, I guess.
Hmm, you might get away with OO.o, again, it depends.
-- Thomas Adam
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"TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net
" We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish
you have the trapped moth
syndrome, it is probable that you have a protocol issue with the mouse. If
it is simply a speed issue, this can be fine-tuned using 'xset' (see the
manpage).
-- Thomas Adam
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"TAG Edito
--- cecil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Adam wrote:
Cecil,
Kindly in future make sure you reply via the list. I charge for private
consultancy. :)
> will xmms even run on this system??? I really like my rant-radio!
Yes, it will.
-- Thomas Adam
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value contained in this file:
/etc/X11/default-display-manager
-- Thomas Adam
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"TAG Editor" -- http://linuxgazette.net
" We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish
you for all of th
reensaver-command
-- Thomas Adam
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