- the network/LAN named tries to sent UDP packet is somehow flooded.
Dns is probably fairly busy. It's the primary authorative dns for some
busy domains.
Is there a setting I can do to increase the limits of UDP packets to keep
it from
causing problems?
it would need
I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for
other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.
Given enough incentive, it unfortunately seems even open source
developers will resort to sneaky tactics:
snip
I opened the case and the motherboard does not match what was supposed
to be in the machine. I will contact the supplier and see what happens
from there.
Maybe it was just a mistake, but i bet not. At least here putting other
cheaper products in computer and getting a price for the
I want to know out of your experience people the following,
1- How open source served your businesses  requirements?
Better performance, stability savings.
Only saving is a feature of Open Source software. Others are features of
just particular programs you use!
2- What kind of
Hello list.
I am trying to clean up a system with a LOT of cruft. Is there some
argument I could pass to pkg_deinstall that would result in delete
all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z (and obviously their
dependancies)?
just do
pkg_info |cut -f 1 -d /tmp/pkglist
edit pkglist and
Unfortunately there are no well done WWW browsers for unix in the world.
links -g is an exceptions, but in the same time it's quite limited.
But have best fonts :)
You're right: browser code is overly complex, and a nightmare to audit
properly for security purposes.
links is not complex, and
possible reasons
- your firewall rules are the cause - check it.
- your network card produce problems (REALLY i have that case)
- the network/LAN named tries to sent UDP packet is somehow flooded.
- the network card changes from UP to DOWN state at the time of the error
See that a lot running
Not really. The point is that at the time the network card goes from up to
down, named spits out this error. If you log named to a different log file
then /var/log/messages, you will not see the relation. The reason for changing
this is one reason i always change syslog.conf to configure
virtualbox) dedicated to this purpose and this purpose only.
Exaggeration IMHO. just make sure your normal user has 700 permissions,
create another and run browser from it.
What about permissions in X? Even if you started the browser as
another user, you'd still have to xhost + that user. And
You mean Xorg can easily be hijack'ed that way?
If you can connect to the X server, you can also attach any
kind of monitoring software to it. Think vncserver and the like...
vncserver creater new X server. Can't monitor yours unless you have
special module for X server installed and loaded
Oh yes indeed: THAT's always bee the more serious threat,
security-wise.
A colleague of mine is a Windows administrator for a local company. I
didn't think people actually did this until he told me a little
People do even more things. In my public internet access network i found
that 90%
* http://www.randombit.net/code/logger.c
compiled this, did
./logger 0xed
where 0xed was my other xterm
then typed at least 10 lines at that xterm window
got:
-rw--- 1 wojtek wheel0 3 cze 18:23 logger-ed.log
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Another perfect example that open source alone can't guarantee
open source - just by being opensource - can't guarantee anything more
that availability of sources.
It's important to stay away of all that hype that opensource programs are
just better.
Many are, many not.
* /usr/ports/security/xspy
but this do. so 2 X servers are compulsory... thanks
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I'd like to add that IF security problems get discovered in OSS,
it's usually just a matter of few time that this problem gets
corrected. This is mostly because the public is able to look at
that's true - i pointed it out at the beginning.
It can be found easily that someone adds backdoor
If you need true-crypt compatible encryption you must ask truecrypt for
FreeBSD port :)
If you like good encryption at all, use geli.
it's useful for any block device. Recording encrypted DVD's are bit
tricky, but not difficult. Then you use them as any normal block device.
Putting swap on ZFS is listed as broken on the wiki. Is that still true of
the newly MFC'ed version?
No idea. You may just make separate partition for swapping and it will
work. Good if you have swap just for sure.
If your system needs swapping under normal operation, using ZFS is really
unplug either end and plug it into my ibook (OS X) the status changes
to active and I can ping the other computer. From this I can see that
both both freebsd computers have working ethernet cards and the cable
works also, just not freebsd-freebsd.
Does anyone have any ideas why this might be the
Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere? Is it true OSS?
No. it's just product name, and is closed source.
They changed the name when IMHO it started to provide some api
that allow porting apps from other systems (like unix) easier.
Also, how many people actually review source code AND have the
Yes, and that old urban legend, that Windows NT is better than VMS, so
the initials are one higher in each position - at least in my alphabet:
Actually - this man and few others from Digital made good job on kernel
programming. Micro-soft f..ed everything else up.
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 01:36:37 pm Wojciech Puchar wrote:
No idea. You may just make separate partition for swapping and it will
work. Good if you have swap just for sure.
Well, the problem is that I wanted to have a bare-metal ZFS system without
any FreeBSD slices or partitions.
slices
There is an open source clone in the works: http://www.freevms.net/
No idea of the state it is in.
basically doesn't work.
The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts.
downloading
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donor==real spammer.
I don't see why I should accept that order. You have no supporters of
your rude and outlandish behavior, and you get worse with each
all your opinions
criticism. You do not represent FreeBSD, the FreeBSD foundation, or the
freebsd-questions mailing list. You can have
The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts.
I just LOVE the webpage. The kind of one I'd make in my spare time...
i have no VMS knowledge so for now i just booted it on qemu and on
computer directly.
loads quickly, i logged in and for now don't know any more ;)
My mirror gm0 consists of two SATA disks, ad4 and ad6. Now, I have a
finicky controller that sporadically spits out READ_DMA and READ_DMA48
or bad cables.
timeouts inexplicably. So at some point in time immemorial after
installing the last kernel, ad4 suffered a number of READ_DMA48 errors
as 2009-01-01 would be 09/001, 2009-02-01 would be 2009/032.
I've read man date and man strftime, and it didn't look
like this is already built in.
What am I missing?
If it's not invented yet, I'll do this on my own, but maybe
I don't need to re-invent the wheel. :-)
#include stdio.h
or bad cables.
I'll have to try different cables sometime, you may very well be correct.
i had such problems many times. it always was cables or disk drive.
Disk drive - check with smartmontools from ports.
i simply have in crontab a script running once per hour:
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/gmirror
Can someone tell me what this file exactly is for?
Got the message 'Stale lock file found. Removed' running 'portupgrade -a'.
that you use portupgrade -a before and it was stopped by some way and did
not removed it's lock file.
Now it found a lock file, but no longer process that it referenced
PS. I love FreeBSD for its excellent documentation. Can't tell
something similar about Linux, sadly.
---
This manual is no longer maintained. It may contain wrong informations.
Use textinfo or even better out webpage
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The cable works find and so does the network card. I have it plugged
is it crossover cable for sure?
into my ibook and am sshing across it - everything works fine and as
it should when using freebsd to osx, just can't do the same from
some cards MAY work without crossing over pairs -
on what planet do You live? really at least 80% of mail that comes to my
servers are spam. spamassassin deletes far over 95% of it fortunately.
It takes a few weeks before the spammers become aware of a brand new mail
system -- you have to send e-mail from the system before they can harvest
I have the package for openoffice 3.2m49 for the FreeBSD 7.2/amd64
available for the languages EN and pt_BR in UTF-8, with
full support for cups.
If you are interested, I can upload the package (120Mb) in the
tinderbox.
I think it is interesting for the FreeBSD community, as
with this port,
to build a kernel! I've spent quite a bit of spare time trawling archives
etc for any hints to the reason why.
I've got mothing similar with my Intel server. Then it was a memory
bank to blame. The server has been fine after replacing that bank.
with no ECC machine it would simply crash. With
Could somebody point me to a relevant sshd documentation where
the cause of these rejection messages is explained:
sshd: Did not receive identification string from xx.xx.xx.xx
it's not rejection. sshd waited waited and didn't got next think it should
It may be ssh windows client bug or just
constantly doing ECC that's why it was damn slow.
anyway - can hardware give any info for OS about how often ECC corrects
errors?
This feels like the right track, I'll run memtest86 on it later tonight.
if i'm right memtest86 will not detect anything as too - all errors get
corrected.
for
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml
So, instead of being pissed on, they might have been persuaded to pay a little
more, get their link and help the project as a whole.
That's what i told - add two zeroes to be advertised.
Missed opportunity.
sure not.
On Tuesday 02 of June 2009 13:01:26 Matthias Apitz wrote:
which works fine, but on quit it crashes while closing the display,
...
I have also this same problem on i386. When closing OO then it produce core
file.
ulimit -c 0
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I want to know out of your experience people the following,
1- How open source served your businesses requirements?
excellent.
2- What kind of application that running on Open Source?
All i needed - do you want a list ?
3- General experience with Open Source technology?
what exactly
I believe people can get more experience in general with open source
technologies than they can with closed source. The reason is simple:
I can look at the code. I can study it. I can see what
${APPLICATION} is doing, and how the developer designed it. This, in
itself, makes me better at what
I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for
other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.
YES!This is the biggest of the three things I have against MS
and one of the main reasons for using FreeBSD and other Open Source
software as much as possible.
But i'm
The only rationale I've heard for closed source is that somebody could
steal the idea.
There will always be both of them. And that's OK as long as you can
choose.
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I can't resist. The lack of math is killing me:
ONE zero. ONE (1) ONE zero.
12 months/year * 50/month = $600/year
12 months/year * 100/month = $1200/year
$600/year / $5000/year = 0.12
$1200/year / $5000/year = 0.24 (or about a quarter of what is needed
for a link).
$417/month = $5004/year.
other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc.
YES!This is the biggest of the three things I have against MS
and one of the main reasons for using FreeBSD and other Open Source
software as much as possible.
I think we all forget about third case, open and closed source being first
But i'm not agains micro-soft. If someone want to pay and be
controlled - his problem.
Today micro-soft doesn't even hide with this!! So it's clear - you pay big
brother and he does well the job he's paid for!
I am, -- on my machines.
but you want to be the owner of your computer. But most
There will always be both of them. And that's OK as long as you can choose.
Yes, I agree.
I use Windows as my workstation, because there are some specific
applications that require Windows to run.
You don't have to explain - you use because you want to :) that's all.
Being able to modify
Multiple linux/bsd distributions: (RHEL, SuSE, FreeBSD + commercial
UNIX as AIX)
Monitoring Application:(Cacti, Nagios, MRTG)
Backup utility:(rsync, tar, mondo)
Content Management system:(Jommla, Durpal)
Virtualization:(Wine)
wine is virtualization?
This thread is starting to remind me of a quote:
You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in
common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They
alter the facts to fit the views, which can be uncomfortable if
you happen to be one of the facts that
You believe he will pay for 4 years?
No... he is suggesting quadrupling the amount.
so we end in what i suggested in the beginning - 5-10 thousands.
just added option to pay by instalments
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em0: Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection 6.9.6 port 0x3000-0x301f mem
0xfc22-0xfc23,0xfc20-0xfc21 irq 31 at device 4.0 on pci3
em0: [FILTER]
em0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:24:84:f2
fxp0: Intel 82550 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0x4400-0x443f mem
just added option to pay by instalments
The original poster several days ago suggested installments. His original post
suggested $50-$100/month. That is $600-$1200/year. You repeatedly said that he
would need to add two zeros. Adding two zeros would be $60,000 -
$120,000/year.
Yes - i
...
Even at first post i wrote that i'm not FreeBSD owners and they will
decide.
We're all human. The potential sponsors might have missed the line
where you said that you were not an owner.
this way - nobody should write anyone. there is always a line that missed
- completely changes a
The Subject is most of the question. We will need to query an
Oracle 10 data base and manipulate data. Is this presently
possible under FreeBSD?
grep -i oracle /usr/ports/INDEX|cut -b 1-75|more
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Any person might look at people in the community and decide that they
don't want to be a part of that community after all. That's why it
Just reread this and, ... don't you think it's quite like a good filter?
I don't talk about sponsors, but a new potential users.
If someone needs good
lot of searching and have found others with similar problems, but no
solutions.
named[69750]: client *ip removed*: error sending response: not
enough free resources
named[69750]: client *ip removed*: error sending response: not
enough free resources
named[69750]: client *ip removed*:
this way - nobody should write anyone. there is always a line that missed
- completely changes a sense of sentence.
I'm sure you know that this is an absurd proposition.
It's just explanation. You can't write anything that will be absolutely
resistible to misreading.
If second - then
matter at all. Rather if you can get answer to questions about FreeBSD.
You can, even easier if some moderation would be present here.
Considering that the mailing list is one of the few places where
support exists, I don't know that I can agree with you.
Also, I don't think that an artificial
When I run the command, other critical programs fail to respond causing
an 'outage-like' situation.
Normally, this is a time-of-day task and will run happily later into the
night, but I want to run it now.
What is the best way to set priority on my task in order to ensure it
completes as
is there any marco that printfs the incoming list, or am i asking too much of
the
compiler at runtime?
what a problem to do
int a;
for (a=0;aargc;a++)
printf(Arg %d == %s,a,argv[a]);
example:
main (int argc, char *argv)
with this macro might print:
2,
If your video card and monitor combination supports underlining this
might be worth pursuing. Many VGA-compatible cards do not, and text-mode
hmm. my knowledge of VGA programming is from 386 times, but i remember it
to be a standard - underline or ability to display another 256 characters
-
I upgraded to Freebsd systems from 7.0 to 7.2
on the first one, done May 25th, I use the generic kernel
$ uname -a reports: 7.2-RELEASE #0
on the second one, done 3 days later (May 28th)
on this system I also build and installed a custom kernel after upgrade.
$ uname -a reports: 7.2-RELEASE #1
assuming you don't run out of swap, it looks like kernel bug or disk I/O
problems.
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, RJ45 wrote:
hello I have a FreeBSD machine
FreeBSD infngw.infn.it 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD
being a MX record with high loads.
I often ahve this message on logs right before the machien
Will the port lang/gnat reflect this update ?
Should I stick to gnat gpl 2006 which is the latest I found in my ports tree ?
or go for any of the lang/gnat-gcc* ports ?
the best solution is to write a port for v2009 (use v2006 port as base),
use what is better for you, and do sent-pr to port
I am trying to install freebsd on my m-2625u gateway laptop but am running
into trouble. whe I try to start x all I get is a black screen.
X -configure
and look if it works fine (no crash etc).
It will generate xorg.conf file in current directory. move it to /etc/X11
and try to edit
every donation is highly welcome. Please have a look at
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml
As you can see, every donor is mentioned, no matter how
small the amount. They'll display a link for donations
of $5,000 or more, and a logo for donations of $10,000
or more.
finally
I just had my first answer to this setup. only roughly 5% of the volume of
on what planet do You live? really at least 80% of mail that comes to my
servers are spam. spamassassin deletes far over 95% of it fortunately.
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on what planet do You live? really at least 80% of mail that comes to my
servers are spam.
spamassassin deletes far over 95% of it fortunately.
You don't follow context very well.
Seems so - sorry. as for input it's rather 5% being not a spam.
with the setup I'm talking
I recently discovered it is a good thing to use a utility of some kind
to joing the lines of a vi/vim-created file before using my
you mean getting one line from line file+line one from other file and
producing one line of output containing both
man paste
:)
I recently aquired and IBM eServer x345, which is taking up to 12 hours
to build a kernel!
sorry if it's stupod question but do you have softupdates enabled?
I've spent quite a bit of spare time trawling archives
etc for any hints to the reason why.
Initally I thought it was the disks
exactly
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Paul Schmehl wrote:
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wrote:
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:03:19AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
so you like to moderate me, being against moderation
I think GT would like you to moderate
For (my own) clarity sake, won't that take up space in '/'? (Not
in my case yes as / is usually my only filesystem. for those who keep
programs (/usr) separate /usr/local2 or /usr/whatever will be OK
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This depends on your file system layout, Glen. If you put
everything into one partition, i. e. /, then everything is
going into /.
like in my case. with one exception - now i usually have /tmp separate but
it's tmpfs :)
other Solarisisms that I've already seen, such as /export
on FreeBSD
4) Just to be contrary, I'd also like to use GELI (if possible) for
everything but /boot. Does needing an extra /boot partition change
anything?
Actually you can't create /boot partition, but something else like /b
and link /boot to /b/boot
bootloader subsystem requires that things are in
Myths about Power Over Ethernet
May 28, 2009
Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technology integrates power and data across standard
Cat5/5e/6 network cabling and provides more flexibility in today?s workplace.
PoE enables power to be supplied to network devices, such as IP phones, network
cameras, and
same user password somewhere else.
The whole point of ssh is to prevent this sort of thing, by
encrypting the message traffic over this insecure communication
channel.
I think most people using ssh already know it. or maybe not?:)
An attacker may be able to intercept the encrypted
traffic,
I want to boost the audio playback of my multimedia.
you mean higher volume.
use mixer command
I use mplayer with oss for audio playback.
I don't want to re-encode my media.
uname -a:'7.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD'
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33. Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint (Wojciech Puchar)
34. Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint (cpghost)
35. Filter request Re: GSM to Serial Converter (Wojciech Puchar)
36. Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail (Wojciech Puchar)
Woj, 20 out of 36 messages, over
No. The company CREATES a need for their product.
That's the number one rule.
if they succeed - what's wrong?
You tell me.
nothing. As long as nobody is forced to buy someones product, every kind
of propaganda is allowed. It's just peoples problem if they will believe
that they NEED for
all your examples are sounds just like kind of tradition.
Just like for eg. creating lots of partitions no matter if it's needed or
not
On Sun, 31 May 2009, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 31 May 2009 10:30:44 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
does Solaris
In fact, given that FreeBSD doesn't seem to have a native convention on
how exported filesystems are laid out (no mention in hier(7), no default
/etc/exports file), it would make sense to adopt the Solaris/Linux style
where
feasible.
it's best not to adopt any style, but do whatever is
One exception: The creation of different partitions according
to different uses can (but doesn't neccessarily have to) be
useful if partition-wise dumps are required or intended. As
you know, there are advantages and disadvantages. There can
This is only adventage - to use dump.
Anyway - do
I just prefer dump + restore for cloning systems because it
explicitely takes care of file attributes and anything; I do use
You are right, but rsync can do the same :)
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Your idea won't hurt in single-disk, single-partition case, but this case
is prohibited by other blind repeat rule of making lots of partitions.
I didn't say anything about how file system layout should be mapped to
disk partitions[*]. Nor do I support the concept of making lots and lots of
case.
You propose just another example of blind repeated rule.
It is often found as corporate standard. This doesn't mean you
Well i don't expect many smart people working in big corporations. There
are exceptions of course - those that got there by accident and not yet
left ;)
my data, and I would like to migrate my cyrus-imapd also to a newer version
of BDB.
Are there any tools or tricks for doing this?
possibly it's compatible but if you are not sure use dbversion_dump and
_load to dump and restore data.
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How do I wait for a specific process to die? I want to do something like:
waitpid 1234(echo done! | Mail -s PROC DONE kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com)
if i understand you correctly:
your_program parameters
bg_process_number=$!
...something else...
wait $bg_process_number
echo done!
bugs or getting help with problem like this. Any advice appreciated
even from Mr Puchar :))
who don't use UK keyboard and pound sign.
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To
Are there any tools or tricks for doing this?
possibly it's compatible but if you are not sure use dbversion_dump and
_load to dump and restore data.
Thanks, I've had a look at the dump and load utilities, they have no man page
it's not FreeBSD but GNU. No man is equivalent of read
passed muster from any reasonable moderator (aye, but there's the rub:
who gets to define 'reasonable'?).
The phrase You're fast to agree with our resident M$ troll when he
argues against government control of anything, even of protecting the
population from a 'free' market that's happy to
is a perfect choice. i recommend it for every unix user.
Thanks for the pointer! I was actually looking for a set of ethernet
print servers, and this looks very promising.
Can you confirm that the PS-1206P works well under RELENG_7?
it can't. it's ethernet device not PC peripheral so it
/Leslie
of course turn off hald, and run moused.
Unfortunately that did not fix the problem :-(
What do I test next?
/Leslie
do
X -configure
and look at xorg.conf then try fixing something there.
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Hey folks, all of you, could I please sugggest that this entire thread (under a
variety of subject names) is an abuse of the lists?
Generally i do agree with you. But - in my opinion there are lots of other
abuses. Whenever i pointed this out i got tons of protests from others.
So please -
It's a detailed how-to but consider the following:
a) With Oracle acquiring Sun, one should move to PostgreSQL where ever
possible.
is this a reason, or that simply mysql is just slow and inefficient
compared to postgreSQL?
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UPS.. maybe better not write that, as people from governments may get
this new idea.
Worse, the EU will consider 'super tankers' unfair to smaller sized
tankers and require super tankers to only carry half as much cargo.
but this will make CO2 emission higher as half-loaded supertanker needs
You did all fine, i have the same configured program in my
linux/openbsd/netbsd/solaris/whatever OS and it works fine
So . . . basically, it's okay for someone to ask about X if that person
reread again. You - intentionally or unintentionally - change what i write
to mean something else.
I know what socialism means. You seem not to. I haven't anywhere advocated
state ownership of businesses - in fact I very clearly stated that I believe
in a free market with only that level of regulation required to keep it free
from monopoly abuse.
You are wrong. there is no monopoly abuse
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Subject: Re: On the need for moderated questions lists
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 07:13:49PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
software that runs on multiple OSes (and not *just* FreeBSD) to run an
extra system, running some other OS.
no. i expect them to ask THAT program support
Wojciech Puchar said the following on 2009-05-28 23:06:
Poland is now slowly losing independence
Poland has never had any independence. Your argument is moot.
generally you are right.
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http
I have a need (well, I have lots of needs, but I'll try to stay focused here)
to be able to take a Windows zip file that is stored as a MIME attachment to
an e-mail message in an Mbox-format spool file, and unzip the attachment. I
actually need to script the process. In case it helps, I can
Basic law of marketing is to give the public what they want.
No. The company CREATES a need for their product.
That's the number one rule.
if they succeed - what's wrong?
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But the choice you have in a strictly moderated mailing list is about
the same as the choice my people had in that particular oppressive
regime: leave or stay to fight a hopeless battle.
Thinking your way - if someone will come to my home and will do what i do
not accept - can i force him to
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