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From: "Lee Shackelford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: installing 6.1 on Compaq Proliant 5000
> Good morning, Mr. Mittelstaedt. Again, many thanks for your response to
my
> q
I use a serial console (sio0 flag 0x10, /boot/loader.conf
console="comconsole", /boot.config -h, /etc/make.conf
BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=115200), but I suddenly have need to quit
doing that that and to use that line for a serial output device at
9600 baud. I am trying to do this without a reboot. Is
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Leo Mrafko wrote:
Yes, I've done it a few months ago.. Just read through the files.. As far
as I remember you need to build amd64 world, then kernel, installworld,
installkernel, reboot, voila, it works.. I had some small problems which I
don't remember now, you will able to
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Napoleon Dynamite wrote:
On Monday 11 September 2006 19:21, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
I'm trying to get my rss reader configured up so that I no longer miss
anything ... or, at least, make it easier to keep on top of everything ...
I can't seem to find stuff like DaemonNews
From: "Ian Graeme Hilt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Monday 11 September 2006 2:42 am, jdow wrote:
From: "Ian Graeme Hilt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> May I point out that I was not interested in CHS alone. My focus was the
> origin of the hard drives parameters i.e. geometry, which is the subject
> of >
On Monday 11 September 2006 19:21, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> I'm trying to get my rss reader configured up so that I no longer miss
> anything ... or, at least, make it easier to keep on top of everything ...
>
> I can't seem to find stuff like DaemonNews and such ...
>
> Does anyone have a list of
I'm trying to get my rss reader configured up so that I no longer miss
anything ... or, at least, make it easier to keep on top of everything ...
I can't seem to find stuff like DaemonNews and such ...
Does anyone have a list of BSD related RSS feeds that they'd be willing to
share?
Thankx
Quoting Xiao-Yong Jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Quoting Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi list,
I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading
extensions and
themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that the
On 09/11/06 17:14, Nestor Wheelock wrote:
I have searched all over the net for a good definition of what the top
state, "kserel" means. When I run mysql this is the state in which it
I don't mean to be stating the obvious... but as a newbie you might not
know that KSE == "Kernel Schedulable
Yes, I've done it a few months ago.. Just read through the files.. As far
as I remember you need to build amd64 world, then kernel, installworld,
installkernel, reboot, voila, it works.. I had some small problems which I
don't remember now, you will able to solve them for sure. Maybe don't
forget t
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, RW wrote:
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 02:18, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
'k, I knew about cross-compiling, just wasn't sure if it was that simple
to upgrade the system being cross-compiled onto ... thanks ...
I don't think it is that simple. I'd search the amd64 list if I we
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 02:18, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 'k, I knew about cross-compiling, just wasn't sure if it was that simple
> to upgrade the system being cross-compiled onto ... thanks ...
I don't think it is that simple. I'd search the amd64 list if I were you.
'k, I knew about cross-compiling, just wasn't sure if it was that simple
to upgrade the system being cross-compiled onto ... thanks ...
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Leo Mrafko wrote:
Yes, in fact it's pretty simple, quoting /usr/src/Makefile:
# If TARGET_ARCH=arch (e.g. ia64, sparc64, ...) is speci
On Monday 11 September 2006 2:42 am, jdow wrote:
> From: "Ian Graeme Hilt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > May I point out that I was not interested in CHS alone. My focus was the
> > origin of the hard drives parameters i.e. geometry, which is the subject
> > of > discussion. From this discussion and ot
Yes, in fact it's pretty simple, quoting /usr/src/Makefile:
# If TARGET_ARCH=arch (e.g. ia64, sparc64, ...) is specified you can
# cross build world for other architectures using the buildworld target,
# and once the world is built you can cross build a kernel using the
# buildkernel target.
Just
Just had a new 64bit server installed at the colo, but they accidentally
installed a i386 ISO, instead of an AMD64 one ... is it possible to build
/ install an amd64 world, or do I have to re-install from a proper ISO
first ?
Thanks ...
Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Ser
--- Jerold McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> backyard writes:
>
> > --- Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> >> > Discussions like these leave me lost for
> words...
> >>
> >> Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quic
On Sep 11, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Nestor Wheelock wrote:
I have searched all over the net for a good definition of what the
top state, "kserel" means. When I run mysql this is the state in
which it runs.
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU
COMMAND
2117 mysql
backyard writes:
--- Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> Discussions like these leave me lost for words...
Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly.
:-)
> Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I
really don't see
>
In the last episode (Sep 11), Nestor Wheelock said:
> I have searched all over the net for a good definition of what the top
> state, "kserel" means. When I run mysql this is the state in which it
> runs.
>
> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
> 2117 mysq
Jonathan Chen wrote:
> To unzip ZIPs, you need to install archivers/unzip. To unzip RARs, you
> need to install archivers/unrar.
The new bsdtar (by way of libarchive) can read zip files quite nicely.
At least most of them, in my experience. According to the man page
libarchive-formats(5):
Zip
--- Anton Shterenlikht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Needless to say, I was very disappointed. I feel
> that FreeBSD will never
> > >achieve broader acceptance (even with momentum
> building for alternative
> > >OS)
> > >among people with modest technical proficiency
> and fairly simple
> > >r
I have searched all over the net for a good definition of what the top
state, "kserel" means. When I run mysql this is the state in which it
runs.
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND
2117 mysql 17 200 323M 59080K kserel 0 0:02 0.00% mysqld
--- Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> > Discussions like these leave me lost for words...
>
> Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly.
> :-)
>
> > Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I
> really don't see
> > what
On Monday 11 September 2006 2:12 pm, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > >Needless to say, I was very disappointed. I feel that FreeBSD will never
> > >achieve broader acceptance (even with momentum building for alternative
> > >OS)
> > >among people with modest technical proficiency and fairly simple
>
On 2006 Sep 11, Joel Adamson wrote:
> Gerard,
>
> Thanks for the recommendations. I'm still using Windows at work, so I'll
> keep your recommendations in mind.
>
> Let me explain the situation, just for your peace of mind: Let's say I'm
> writing something in a word processor; I want to check
Quoting Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi list,
I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and
themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're
not "supported in Unknown".
Any ideas on how to fix this, please?
TIA
Jeff Rollin
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running: 6.1-stable
samba: 3.0.23b
Question about the loopback interface for sambaI've got a dual-homed host
and when I set this in my smb.cnf
bind interfaces only = yes
interfaces = em0 lo0
hosts deny = ALL
hosts allow = 10.0.0.0/24 127.
I get errors when running samab tests sta
> >Needless to say, I was very disappointed. I feel that FreeBSD will never
> >achieve broader acceptance (even with momentum building for alternative
> >OS)
> >among people with modest technical proficiency and fairly simple
> >requirements (i.e., spreadsheets, word processing, presentations, emai
Has anyone ported the ata drivers with SATA
support back to 4.x? It is doable or are there
some new kernel structures that won't port?
DT
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On 9/11/06, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi list,
I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and
themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're
not "supported in Unknown".
What theme/extension are you trying to install?
An
Hi list,
I'm using FBSD 6.1-RELEASE and I'm having trouble downloading extensions and
themes in firefox (installed from packages). They all complain that they're
not "supported in Unknown".
Any ideas on how to fix this, please?
TIA
Jeff Rollin
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote:
> On 8 September 2006, at 08:10, Lasse Edlund wrote:
>
> > If I have two files "foo" and "bar" and try to run diff on them I write:
> > $diff foo bar
> > I can also write
> > $cat foo | diff - bar
> > But how do I give a program two (2) comm
From: "Alex de Kruijff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:42:19PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote:
Too bad you felt it was that horrific.
In my experience FreeBSD is sometimes a bit harder than modern Linux
distros to install, but are much nicer to maintain and use.
I found leanin
Hello!
Is anyone successfully running RELENG_5_5 on IBM Netfinity 3500? I have
one such machine here (Type 8644-10X, with IBM ServeRAID 3L) that was
running RELENG_5_4 (and 5.3 before that, IIRC) quite happily. Now I cvsupped
to RELENG_5_5 and built a new world and kernel, but when booting the ne
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Discussions like these leave me lost for words...
Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. :-)
Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I really don't see
what the
problem is with sysinstall.
Credits: It's highly functional.
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Leo Mrafko wrote:
> >> /var/backups contains a few files you may need.
> >
> > Yeah, really, thanks, I found there some backup. But I still
> > wonder, if
> > there is a possibily to reconstruct master passwd back from .db fi
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Leo Mrafko wrote:
/var/backups contains a few files you may need.
Yeah, really, thanks, I found there some backup. But I still
wonder, if
there is a possibily to reconstruct master passwd back from .db files,
e.g. in case this backup is not up-to-date. I think i
On 11/09/06, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/11/06, Bob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made
the
> decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a Unix or Linux
> system. With office suites li
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, michael johnson wrote:
> On 9/11/06, Leo Mrafko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > after some weird disk accident I have only pwd.db and spwd.db from my
> > passwd files left. Passwd and master.passwd are missing. Couln't find them
> > in /lost+found too. The system
On Sep 11, 2006, at 5:27 AM, Amarendra Godbole wrote:
This is a general FreeBSD source related question, and I am posting it
here, as it did not fit in any other FreeBSD lists...
This list is a quite reasonable choice to ask such questions. :-)
While browsing through sources for different us
On 9/11/06, Leo Mrafko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
after some weird disk accident I have only pwd.db and spwd.db from my
passwd files left. Passwd and master.passwd are missing. Couln't find them
in /lost+found too. The system is running, but I can not add new users, of
course (baybe only
Hello,
after some weird disk accident I have only pwd.db and spwd.db from my
passwd files left. Passwd and master.passwd are missing. Couln't find them
in /lost+found too. The system is running, but I can not add new users, of
course (baybe only using pwd_mkdb -u ).
Is there any way how to reconst
On 9/11/06, Bob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made the
decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a Unix or Linux
system. With office suites like OpenOffice, I felt that I would be able to
transition away fr
On 8 September 2006, at 11:45, Jerold McAllister wrote:
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) writes:
I'm old school. Back in my day, we didn't have the Internet we
have today, and our UNIX boxes could mail over the network we had
strung. I don't care what mail app I use. I just want to be able
t
Administrators wrote:
Hi,
I'm building VPN connected to CISCO device.
I NEED to translate my LAN adress to a given adress.
The VPN work well when I try doing
ifconfig em0 alias [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ping -S [EMAIL PROTECTED] dest_@
but I didn't manage to translate LAN adresse AND having VPN used.
On 8 September 2006, at 08:10, Lasse Edlund wrote:
If I have two files "foo" and "bar" and try to run diff on them I
write:
$diff foo bar
I can also write
$cat foo | diff - bar
But how do I give a program two (2) commands? not only to diff
but to any program that wants double input...
I wanna
Gerard,
Thanks for the recommendations. I'm still using Windows at work, so I'll keep
your recommendations in mind.
Let me explain the situation, just for your peace of mind: Let's say I'm
writing something in a word processor; I want to check something on the
internet, or I want to initiate
Good morning, Mr. Mittelstaedt. Again, many thanks for your response to my
question. My original purpose in purchasing the computer was to install
multiple operating systems for hobbyist purpose. The computer's major
selling point was that it has five hard drives. My original idea was to
instal
In response to Anton Shterenlikht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 2006 Sep 11, Bill Moran wrote:
> > In response to Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't
> > > the most
> > > important part of the system, but every bit co
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:51:28 +0200
Alex de Kruijff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > absolutely. but you don't need to "install" anything to "run" a graphical
> > installer. And, ideally, you wouldn't be forced to have only the graphical
> > installer option, you'd still be able to use the good old n
On 2006 Sep 11, Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't the
> > most
> > important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think that having
> > both a ncurses and a GUI (non-ncur
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:42:19PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote:
>
> Too bad you felt it was that horrific.
>
> In my experience FreeBSD is sometimes a bit harder than modern Linux
> distros to install, but are much nicer to maintain and use.
I found leaning linux was much harder because there w
In response to Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Any other related projects to improve the installer? I *KNOW* it isn't the
> most
> important part of the system, but every bit counts, and I think that having
> both a ncurses and a GUI (non-ncurses ;) )based installer would be quite nice
>
torrentflux has it's own forum for problems like this. Please consult
http://www.torrentflux.com/forum for help. I don't check that forum
anymore as I'm a dev for b4rt's mod. If you can't get any help from
the official TF folks, email me off-list and I'll see what I can do.
On 9/10/06, Ryan Wino
"Viswas Nair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I get the message "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++_p" while building the
> xfe X11 file manager.
> A google did not give any ideas.
> Need help.
Well, start with whether libstdc++_p.a actually exists in /usr/lib.
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:26:33 +0200
Jonathan McKeown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 11 September 2006 15:56, Jud wrote:
> > everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that a "better" (meaning,
> > at least to many folks, more simplified and graphical)
> > installer would be nice
>
> Perhaps as an o
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 05:32:40 -0400
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We are a community. We're not Microsoft. We're not interested in
> driving users away by saying "here's everything you need, don't bother
> us again." Our limited resources are focused on developing the really
> importan
On Monday 11 September 2006 09:20, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
> Good day everyone,
>
> I'm trying to make it possible to restart (as in 'shutdown -r now') a
> FreeBSD based router from LAN network as easy as possible so it can be
> used by non-technical people.
First of all, it's easy enough to do t
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:26:33 +0200, "Jonathan McKeown"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Monday 11 September 2006 15:56, Jud wrote:
> > everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that a "better" (meaning,
> > at least to many folks, more simplified and graphical)
> > installer would be nice
>
> Perhaps as an
I installed a custom kernel with vt console driver enabled. I also enabled vt
in /boot/device.hints. Now my boot process freezes just after the countdown
finishes. The hard drive busy indicator is always on.
If I disable vt and enable sc at the boot loader prompt (set
hint.vt.0.disabled="1", un
--- Karol Kwiatkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Good day everyone,
>
> I'm trying to make it possible to restart (as in
> 'shutdown -r now') a
> FreeBSD based router from LAN network as easy as
> possible so it can be
> used by non-technical people.
>
> I'm sure some will ask why would I ne
On Monday 11 September 2006 15:56, Jud wrote:
> everyone who uses FreeBSD knows that a "better" (meaning,
> at least to many folks, more simplified and graphical)
> installer would be nice
Perhaps as an option. The problem is that you need to install a graphical
environment to run a graphical i
Good day everyone,
I'm trying to make it possible to restart (as in 'shutdown -r now') a
FreeBSD based router from LAN network as easy as possible so it can be
used by non-technical people.
I'm sure some will ask why would I need that - it's an USB modem
connecting to ADSL line that locks up some
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:46:13 -0400, "Bob Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I
> am
> going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a
> twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with
/sys/conf/newvers.sh
This file will determine the kernel version tag showed at booting
time. Don't know if it has anything to do with your problem.
HTH :-)
On 9/11/06, Spencer PriceNash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:22:42PM +0800, Yuan, Jue wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Could I
On Sunday 10 September 2006 19:11, White Hat wrote:
> FreeBSD 6.1
>
> I need to keep several programs starting in a
> particular order.
...
> The problem is that every time I update these programs
> the rc.d startup file is modified which destroys the
> changes I have made.
I've got around this p
Thanks to *all* who responded to my whining -- you've been great, and I am
going to give FreeBSD another try. Apologies to all if I sounded like a
twit... I was just eager to try something new as I have had it with MS
products. Regards,
Bob Walker
Surveys & Forecasts, LLC
2323 North Street
Fairfi
That makes me kind angry too but many other failed to show the "big corps"
what the bsd* OSs worth.
Macromedia know about freebsd, the linux dev coordinator posts about freebsd
in his product blog but they don't care.. they know that having a linux
driver is enough to have a good reputation in th
Hi,
This is a general FreeBSD source related question, and I am posting it
here, as it did not fit in any other FreeBSD lists...
While browsing through sources for different userland utilities (cat,
chmod, and so on), I noticed that in main(), first getopt() is called
in a while loop, and then t
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:20:35PM +0600, Клопотнюк Михаил Сергеевич wrote:
>
> I have FreeBSD 5.4 and Apache2 (Apache2-2.0.53_1).
> I need compile module mod_ntlm for apache. Compiling stops with this
> errors:
> # make install
> ===> Building for mod_ntlm-0.4
You need mod_ntlm2
It is not in p
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:06:54PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
> On 09/04/2006 16:00, Peter wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like
> >to have access to a FBSD system within it.
>
> Have you considered "Virtual PC" from MS? I believe its free.
As
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 06:22:42PM +0800, Yuan, Jue wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Could I change the kernel version tag manually? say, I have a kernel which is
> 7.0-CUREENT, but for some reasons I wanna it be something like 6.1-RELEASE,
> while the kernel itself does't change from 7.0-CURRENT to 6.1-RE
On Monday 11 September 2006 05:29, Jeff Rollin wrote:
> On 11/09/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Bob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made
> >
> > the
> >
> > > decision to switch some of my office
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
> ... The trouble is
> that different kernels still clash in the same OBJDIR. I would like to
> have something like MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj/${KERNCONF} , the trouble
> being that it cannot be set in make.conf .
> Is there a way around this restriction?
>
Just for the record
On 11/09/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made
the
> decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a Unix or Linux
> system. With office suites like OpenOffice, I f
Hi,
I'm building VPN connected to CISCO device.
I NEED to translate my LAN adress to a given adress.
The VPN work well when I try doing
ifconfig em0 alias [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ping -S [EMAIL PROTECTED] dest_@
but I didn't manage to translate LAN adresse AND having VPN used.
I can pass throug VPN
--- Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> I believe 6.1 uses rcorder for scripts from
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d, in
> which case you might be able to create local patches
> in the relevant
> ports which added appropriate e.g.
>
> # BEFORE:
> # PROVIDES:
> # REQUIRE:
>
> lines to force t
I have several systems which all use the same /usr/obj over NFS.
In the make.conf of those systems WRKDIRPREFIX is set to /usr/obj/${HOST},
which keeps machines from messing with each other while they build ports.
Those machines have their own kernel configurations, which reside in
/root/kernels/
Bob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have always wanted to better understand Unix, and so I finally made the
> decision to switch some of my office PCs over to either a Unix or Linux
> system. With office suites like OpenOffice, I felt that I would be able to
> transition away from Wi
White Hat wrote:
FreeBSD 6.1
I need to keep several programs starting in a
particular order.
clamav-clamd
clamav-freshclam
clamsmtpd
saslauthd
dovecot
postfix
fetchmail
By default, they do not start in that order. I have
modified the rc.d files to force them to start in the
order specified ab
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