I just installed Mandrake 10.1 and I can't get KDE to come up. How do I
change the Desktops from the command line? I want to try GNOME.
George
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Hello, I'm new to Linux and I'm running Mandrake 9.2.
I have just installed the sshd server that came with
the installation disks.
My sshd service is running fine but I'm unable to
login to localhost with the root password. I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ssh localhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s
for now.
Thank you for your time!
--- Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Monday 05 January 2004 08:46 pm, George P.
Stathis wrote:
Hello, I'm new to Linux and I'm running Mandrake
9.2.
I have just installed the sshd server that came
with
the installation disks.
My sshd service
Title: Message
Hello, I am running Mandrake
9.2 and I am trying to install VMware Workstation 4 on it (http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html).
This software requires the
header files of the Linux kernel since it makes some changes to them. When I
downloaded the 3 disks of
to
configure VMware without any further problems.
-GS
--- Sharrea Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:00, George P. Stathis wrote:
Firstly, please lose the Reply-to address. It
causes replies to go
directly to you rather than the list. Thanks.
When I open my KDE control center
j-pilot has install under file in the menu bar. This will install your books
if they are in pdb, or prc format.
George
On Tuesday 12 August 2003 08:47 am, Todd Slater wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:21:24PM +0300, Anarky wrote:
hi, I've got a palm m105 ... and though I have found
I've just installed MDK 8.2 and was really pleased to find Evolution. Is it
possible to import Outlook 2000 info into Evolution.
George Baker
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
-Samuel Butler, poet (1612-1680)
Want
LILO back.
I'm a bit worried now that the C: drive is NTFS. If I use the MDK 7.0 boot
CD will I damage something? I have never used NTFS before and don't want to
mess things up.
I unfortunately don't have a MDK boot floppy disk.
Please advise.
George Baker
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.directory - if I deleted this file then back in Linux everything was hunky
dory. Since the reinstall this has not been a problem
George Baker
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The world is your oyster.but the future's your clam
- Original Message -
From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED
Is it possible to upgrade xmms to a newer version on MDK 7.0? I have
downloaded xmms 1.2.7. - MDK 7.0 came with xmms 0.9.5.1. I see I need glib
1.2.2 or better. Can I download the necessary libraries and then compile the
new xmms?
George Baker
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The soul would
From reading this list I gather you can run Win within Linux using vmware.
It seems as MDK 7.0 did not come with this - so is it possible to download
vmware and install it on MDK 7.0 or do I need to upgrade to 8.2.
George Baker
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I declare a permanent state
Last night a process called syslogd -m started and my hard drive went mad
for over 7 hours until I killed the process. What is it doing and how
often - will it always carry on for so long or was it just a once off due to
me moving MDK to a new drive??
Please advise
George
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I have been on this list for a few months and have saved all messages I
thought were important. Today I installed a new hard drive and moved MDK
over to it and resized the partitions without one problem. All due to the
advice given this list.
George Baker
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Can you delete Core Dump files?
George Baker
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permissions for it alone. WHAT have I done.
Please help
George Baker
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
- Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet (1887-1964)
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Dear Tech Support:
This year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that
the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of
space and valuable resources. No mention of this was included with the
product information. In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself
access the
drive. I presume they are still trying to access /dev/hdb instead of
/dev/hdc. Where do I change these settings?
George Baker
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Africa is not for sissies - tata ma chance
- Syd Kitchen
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I'm using MDK 7.0 with an external Rockwell modem on serial A or Com 1.
Using kppp if I query the modem the lights flash but then it says modem not
responding. Does not matter if I choose dev/modem or dev/ttys0. Either one
the modem lights flash but same result modem not responding.
Help please.
reinstalling MDK as I was
going to upgrade to Ver 8.2 anyway.
Any info would be appreciated.
George Baker
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I presume this is true for Mandrake later than MDK 7.0 but as I am still
living in the dark age is it possible to download the ogg encoder/decoder
and implement them in Xmms and Grip?
George Baker
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I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer
George Baker wrote:
I've got a Compaq DP 4000 P166 which creates a partition with the
software
to change any CMOS settings (you push F10). After installing MDK 7.0 with
LILO I can't get into the Cmos settings. Is there a way of pointing LILO
to
this partition. Luckily I still have
George Baker wrote:
Hi - I've just upgraded from a 486 to a P166 with a S3 Virge DX/GX PCI
graphics card with 2MB memory. Installed MDK 7.0 today but can't get X
desktop to display properly. There is a jagged box under the curser and
lines running through the display. If I move
settings.
Thanks
George Baker
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South Africa
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Hi - I've just upgraded from a 486 to a P166 with a S3 Virge DX/GX PCI
graphics card with 2MB memory. Installed MDK 7.0 today but can't get X
desktop to display properly. There is a jagged box under the curser and
lines running through the display. If I move a window it leaves shadows
behind.
I
?
If it helps, I can use SMB to connect to a network printer within the
workgroup.
MTIA
George in Edinburgh
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Hi all,
I have setup a laptop in an NT environment and I would like to be able
to swap files directly, just as I can with my last remaining Mac.
I haven't a clue where to start.
I have an NT Worgroup with 4NT clients (all running NTServer4) one
Win2K laptop and a Mac with MacOS9.
Any
main aim is to have a LAMP setup with PHP.
MTIA
George in Edinburgh
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or MkLinux.
HTH
George in Edinburgh
- Original Message -
From: Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Newbie Mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] LinuxMandrake on a Mac
Is there a LinuxMandrake for a MAc computer I have a Mac LC3
Tomek,
I don't think so. Just say that you'll join later.
G
- Original Message -
From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:05 PM
Subject: [newbie] Mandrake Club Membership??
Hi,
Maybe I don't understand well english, but...
DO
Thanks for the suggestion, Dan, but I already have those RPMs
installed (and reinstalled for good measure!).
WP8 was working fine for me under both LM 8.0 8.1, but got hosed
after I installed the Cooker release.
George
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=
NETWORK=
BROADCAST=
ONBOOT=yes
After DHCP passes the parameters, the blanks should be filled in
with the correct information.
4. If you haven't turned your cable modem off since the conversion,
you should do so, so that will clear any cached information out of its
memory.
Hope this helps.
George
GMC fire up
Theres always the nuclear option of killing .kde and .kderc if all else fails
:(
--
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---
Equality is not when a female Einstein gets promoted to assistant
professor; equality is when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a
male schlemiel
-by-side with existing kernel, then checking lilo
initrd before rebooting good
--
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---
It's a brave man who, when things are at their darkest, can kick back and
party!
-- Dennis Quaid, Inner Space
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an everyone read attribute
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If anyone has seen my dog, please contact me at x2883 as soon as possible.
We're offering a substantial reward. He's a sable collie, with three legs,
blind in his left eye, is missing part of his right ear and the tip of his
tail
noted a post asking info to make multi installations of linux.
did you find help?
if not, reply your request. i can offer contact with someone
on another list, who, iirc, wrote a custom installation,
burn bootable cds.
tc,hago.
g
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Frank McKenna wrote:
[snip]
Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals
that they do frank.
Plato ~ It takes a minute to have a crush on
someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love
someonebut it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
this is true.
so please disable your
Anke Max wrote:
Gidday All
[snip]
it is easier to teach good habits, than it is to change
bad habits.
Well said g
Thanks
Max
thank you max. i do hope all of this does help 'all us newbies'.
-=-
perseverance can be a reward.
-=-
tc,hago.
g
.
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Richie de Almeida wrote:
Sorry George, I was just contributing to the conversation.
I kinda wondered if I wasn't making myself clear but you understand
your position well enuff you didn't take any offence!
The thread itself was talking about a particular bad response to
HTML email
so
Frank McKenna wrote:
Thanks but I just checked and these messages are supposed to be
going out in plain text. If these are going out in HTML format
then I am sorry but I am not sure where else to change my settings
you must have found it. this is 'text/plain'
Please find below a copy of
Joseph Braddock wrote:
Sorry, Nostradamus never said/wrote that. You left off the date of
1654 which normally is at the end of this,
not true. i only passed along what i found in enews,
-=- from old email -=-
Web Site Review [EMAIL PROTECTED]
~*~*~ Tuesday, September 18, 2001 ~*~*~
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
[snip]
thank you for your responce.
i follow this list. i am threading subject.
i will reply thru list to this subject...
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
another wise man...
-=-
beauty of real is revealed only to those who persevere.
-=-
perseverance can be a reward.
-=-
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Good god this is funny:
God if you can 'Good'. tymGBu. ;)
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/24/1814256
did not see it there, but did note similar on a few other enews list.
you will note 'trends' thru enews list and is hope fully an indication
that 'fresh
PENA FAMILY wrote:
This is for the interest of anyone who is planning on buying a Linux
compatible external modem.
[snip]
hayes is good. have used slower 'early models', grew faster with usr,
now motorola.
All in all I enjoyed and recommend the Hayes external modem. The only
trouble now is
Mark Johnson wrote:
Agreed. You know it's amazing how many times we assume the worse in
others
[snip]
no agrument with you points of this issue.
before long, this thread can make a good 'faqs for newbie'.
but will they bother to read it.
surely, a newbie to a list will note that majority
FLYNN, Steve wrote:
ROFL!
I'd be absolutely stunned if a modem was asking for an email
account name!
[snip]
my sides are still sore. ;)
at least anyone else doing a 'subject:' search on
hayes external modems, will know a little more about
setting 'hayes commands'
if you ever come to
Miark wrote:
[snip]
i thought that was 'cheese and mac'.
use tip of a spoon handle.
works for me.
tc,hago.
g
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PENA FAMILY wrote:
Just finished building my Linux box a few days ago. I took an old 4Gb
Quantum Fireball which suddenly Linux doesn't recognize and keeps
asking me for SCSI drivers and gives me a list to pick from.
Nevertheless, I just want to turn this 4Gig drive as extension for raw
Paul RodrÃguez wrote:
Thanks, Randy. That sounds like it. I live in the NY Metro area, I'll
look arround. I don't really know of any hobbyist places, but there
must be some.
Thanks!
I guess this betrays my age a bit. I'd never seen one of these before.
:)
-Paul RodrÃguez
you
) if you are using a modem connection.
George
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On Monday 10 September 2001 00:07, George Petri complained about
Mandrake 8.0 expert-mode graphical installation not even prompting for
the 2nd CD :). btw, I made a pure reiserfs 600 mb / partition and a 64 mb
swap.
I was looking at /root/ddebug.log and found this:
* step `miscellaneous
, when someone
tripped over the power plug and when I forgot to choose reiserfs.
Is there a single-cd version of mandrake? Perhaps my friend burnt that and
the 2nd cd of the two-cd version?
thanks again,
george
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On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:03, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:59, George Petri wrote:
I know this is a very, very trivial question but for some reason I can't
find the manual for it:
How do I change the default login group for a user?
I've looked in /etd
miss something in the
install?
TIA,
George
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On Wednesday 05 September 2001 20:53, etharp wrote:
that gateway is for the computer you are on, so the gateway would be the IP
your ISP assigns via dhcp, the gateway to the client computers (the rest of
your home network that is connecting to the Internet) would be the linux
box eth0 IP.
.
Now, if for some reason I wanted to change the group that I start up in
(so that new files that I make are owned by george.newgroup),
how would I do it?
Please point me to the relevant manuals or just give me the answer :)
Thanks in advance,
George
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Sorry everyone but I queued a lot of messages in my outbox than my drafts so a
few too many messages got sent to this list.
Sorry!
George
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Just a guess but have you tried running X in 16bit?
Is X running in the same video mode as Tuxracer (640x480???)?
Hope it helps,
george
On Saturday 25 August 2001 13:31, Jeremy Davidson wrote:
I finally got Tuxracer to work -- had to tell RPMDrake (Software Manager?)
to install the mesa
800x600
EndSubsection
Subsection Display
Depth 24
Modes 800x600
EndSubsection
EndSection
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To bring up the chooser at startup, I guess, you will have to add the line
x:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -indirect localhost just before the last
line of /etc/inittab (mandrake 7.2), x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon:
No warranties, though! I have given up trying this anyway!
George
this mean?:
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=42366, sector=407538
thanks,
george
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:*:11513:0:9:7:::
xfs:!!:11513:0:9:7:::
How come xfs has a !!, instead of a *?
Thanks again,
george
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it only has Genius Netscroll on PS2. I have
a serial
Netscroll mouse - any ideas how I can set it up?
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the mail (thought it was top). What is the command?
Anyway the 2 mails were both 49+megs, so I deleted them.
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.
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be able to copy my existing setup over to the new drive or
will I have to reinstall. I understand that I will have to point
LILO to the new drive.
Thanks
George Baker
South Africa
At 10:28 PM 07/19/2001 +, civileme wrote:
On Thursday 19 July 2001 19:52, George Baker wrote:
Sorry, I am new
civileme wrote:
On Friday 20 July 2001 20:56, George Baker wrote:
A V Flinsch wrote:
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 17:03, you wrote:
Trying to install koffice 2.0.1 and kfinance 0.2.0 and keep getting the
message that the C Compiler can't create executables. I have installed
gcc
I downloaded koffice from tucows but it is a Debian package, ending in
.deb. How do you install it.
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lhost.localdomain".
Please help me fix my config files so that I can
use my Internet connection again in Linux!
Thanks,George
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To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems
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oops, forget to send to list!
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From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Problems
Check out your resolv.conf
You should have before you connect
I'm using Windows 98, the DNS server is there but the Default Gateway
section is blank!
Why is this?
Thanks again,
George
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From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: George Petri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet
I installed LM 7 on a 1.2 gig extended partition. Now I see that /root
partition is nearly full, yet I have 300 MB free in /home. How can I
give more space to /root or specifically /usr.
Thanks
George Baker
South Africa
Trying to install koffice 2.0.1 and kfinance 0.2.0 and keep getting the
message that the C Compiler can't create executables. I have installed
gcc and gcc -c++. This is the config.log I get:
Thanks
George Baker
South Africa
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running
and say so in /etc/X11/XF86Config or
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4. If you get the wrong one then you get funny (and
annoying) mouse behaviour.
I may be wrong but I guess it's worth a try :)
- George
card so that i can listen
music?
If you are using OSS (very likely), then run the command sndconfig as root.
You should avoid running it X (or so the warning says!) but it runs fine for
me in X. If you are using ALSA, I point you to www.alsa-project.org :)
- George
...(with the
exception of the failsafe option). Now this is not neccessarily a bad
thing :) but some users want to use gnome and ice.
So what have I done wrong? And how do I get gnome etc. back? Typing
startgnome from failsafe does work so it's something to do with KDM and/or
X.
Thanks,
George
0.49 out of 10, 1 minute
ago...or is it out of 5 or what?
Please help me :)
Thanks,
George
at appoximately what load average should I start to get worried about
the system being too busy (i.e. becomes so unresponsive that I can't do any
work)?
Thanks,
George
in the middle?
What does it mean? Is it important or a warning or something?
Thanks,
George
subgroups, a
games group which includes all multimedia and games groups etc.
Thanks,
George
On Thursday 28 June 2001 08:10, n6tadam wrote:
Hello George,
I apologise. I was not clear enough with my explanation!! I know what you
meant, when you referred to NT as having groups, within groups
Is this possible?
Thanks,
George
Hi!
Yes, I meant can I have a big group called Power User, which contains
groups within that such as Games, Office etc. But you've answered my
question anyway :)
Thanks,
George
On Wednesday 27 June 2001 14:34, Michael D. Viron wrote:
George,
If you mean, can a group be part of another
Hi!
I've just noticed a new folder in my home directory, called nsmail.
What made it? What is it for? And do I need it :)?
Thanks,
George
Hi!
I know this may sound trivial but: How do I enable the joystick? I have an
integrated ES1373 sound chip on my motherboard and I plug a cheap analog
Radioshack joystick into the sound port. I am using OSS in Mandrake 7.2
(2.2-17 kernel), at the moment.
Thanks,
George Petri
root4 Mar 30 16:03 reboot - halt*
Thanks,
George Petri
Nope, more likely it is your chipset. Some KT133 and KT133A chipsets have
a problem about halting/rebooting, especially on FIC AZ11 motherboards,
limited to specific runs. There may be others as well that we don't know
manufacturer but still within the limits of my monitor
(VX700).
Thanks,
George Petri
time I boot into Linux.
But why does this happen in the first place and how do I fix it, permanently?
Thanks,
George Petri
Try typing 'sndconfig' in a console. It is a Red Hat program (that should
come with your system) but it works for me in Mandrake 7.2. Avoid running it
in an X Session.
Hope it helps,
George
should be
looking for and where, I'd appreciate it. I'd really like to get this
straightened out, but I'm totally lost!
George
...surfing with Warp4 for now...
Good Day
Does anybody know what the estimated release date for LM7.2 is?
___
http://www.webmail.co.za the South-African free email service
with the geforce2 not working.
Thanks in advance.
George
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ined.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
George
something else wrong elsewhere. Any generic ideas
on what to check to make sure ssh works?And if I can get out the server
here with
telnet, I should be able to get out with ssh also, right?
Thanks,
George
"Daniel J. Ferris" [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mailed by:
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09/28/2000 08
I am still having trouble configuring my system for incoming calls. I found
something on the Internet about it, but it did not work. I have a 3com USR
voice faxmodem hooked to S1 (com 2). I can get a dialtone and the modem can
call out. (I have not successfully authenticated to my ISP, but I
has something to do with Samba. If I get same problem
again, I will shut down that service to see if that solves the problem.
I do not know about SSH so I will try to find something online about it.
Thanks again,
George
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program to allow me to run a
program similar to linuxconf(sp?) in a graphical mode. Now I can only seem to run it in a very
annoying text mode.
Any help would be appreciated.
George
(it's a RedHat thing).
If you have questions on configuring Firewall, Masquerading, LAN, etc,
please let me know.
--Greg
- Original Message -
From: George Brooks
Where can I find information on how to allow incoming connections to my
Mandrake 7.1 box? I downloaded the software from the net so
acount to be configured?
--Greg
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From: "George Brooks" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greg,
I am trying to do two things. First and most importantly, I want to be
able
to dial into my server using a phone line. When I dial in, I want to be
able to access
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