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Gunther Hess

2002-Feb-24 05:40 UTC

[Samba] Multiple Instancies of Samba on a single System

Hi out there,
             i intend to run multiple Instancies of Samba
on a single, multi-homed, server, with each instance bound
to a specific (logical) interface.

If this works, it would be fine to me. 
Mainly for administrative Reasons. (You won't believe, 
but from time to time it becomes necessary to restart
some services, but restarting the entire server is a
real mess)

Well here my questions:

 - Most important: 
   Can anyone out there tell me, that this is definitely impossible?

 - Most helpful: 
   Which settings must appear in the Configuration, to split the
   working-directories? (locks, logs, private-dir and so on)

 - Very interesting:
   Has anyone experience with such a configuration?

Thanks in advance
Gunther
-- 
Dr. Gunther Hess           Elmos Semiconductor AG
Tel.: ++49 +231 7549-520   Heinrich Hertz Str. 1
Fax:  ++49 +231 7549-109   D-44227 Dortmund
WWW: http://www.elmos.de   Opinions are strictly of my own

George Finster

2002-Feb-24 07:06 UTC

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[Samba] Multiple Instancies of Samba on a single System

Can anyone out there tell me, that this is definitely impossible?

Yes.  I have a freebsd machine with two ip addresses (one nic) and have a 
samba server bound to each address.

Which settings must appear in the Configuration, to split the
   working-directories? (locks, logs, private-dir and so on)

I did this in an easier way for me.  I installed two versions of samba!  (I 
am a lazy, lazy man.  Typing ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba-cvs; make 
; make install and the editing the smb.conf file seemed much less 
complicated to me) One under /usr/local/samba-cvs and one just under 
/usr/local.

Has anyone experience with such a configuration?

I only set up the second server so I could mess around with having a pdc on 
my network which would emulate the one at my wife's work for when she 
brought her laptop home without having to screw up the existing server.  It 
seems to work.

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Gunther Hess

2002-Feb-25 15:54 UTC

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Hi out there,
             i asked the question, how to establish multiple
Samba-instancies on a single system. Well, nobody made objections
that this should work and apparently it really works with the following
setup:

- Compilation (config.status):
  (nothing special about it, except that i enforce the existance
   of /etc/smb.conf for samba to work properly)

   ./configure  --prefix=/opt/samba-2.2.3a \
   --localstatedir=/var/samba --with-configdir=/etc \
   --with-automount --with-syslog --with-quotas --with-utmp \
   --with-msdfs --with-vfs --with-libsmbclient --with-acl-support

   /opt/samba-2.2.3a is a shared, readonly directory on a central
   server, while /etc and /var are local, writable directories
   on different samba-servers.

-  Startup/Setup
   - The attached Shell-Script "samba" is my startup/shutdown
     script for the servers.

     - /etc/smb.conf-<Server> - is the instance-configuration
 
     - <Server> == zerberos is my PDC, which has an alter-Ego
       /etc/nmb.conf (/etc/nmb.conf is symlinked to /etc/smb.conf-zerberos)

       This is due to the fact, that apparently a Samba-PDC does
       not work without a running nmbd, which processes the 
       logon-packets. But only one nmbd must run on a single system.

     - /etc/smb.conf is a symlink to /etc/smb.conf-zerberos too,
       which is required for smbpasswd to work properly, due to
       my specific compilation.

    ## And _never_ name your PDC with the domain-name!! 

- Instance-Setups (smb.conf-devil1):

  As already seen in the zerberos-configuration, two parameters are 
  important to split the working-directories:

   log file                = /var/samba/devil1/log/%M.%m
   lock directory          = /var/samba/devil1/locks

   (devil1 has an alter-ego named devil2, which shares his locks
    and logs, what is the reason for the "config file"-parameter
    in the attached file)

And a final note:

  Both configurations bind to a single interface (32Bit Mask).

  The PDC also binds to the loopback-interface (for smbpasswd
  to work on this system. 

Hope that this helps others and sorry for this lengthly mail.

Regards
Gunther

P.S.: my `ps -axuww | fgrep samba` looks like this after /etc/init.d/samba start

root     22823  0.1  0.2 2488 1912 ?        S 23:44:43  0:00 nmbd -D -d 1 -H
/etc/lmhosts -l /var/samba/nmb/log -s /etc/nmb.conf
root     22925  0.0  0.2 3472 1616 ?        S 23:46:22  0:00 smbd -D -d 1 -l
/var/samba/devil1/log -s /etc/smb.conf-devil1
root     22848  0.0  0.2 3456 1664 ?        S 23:44:44  0:00 smbd -D -d 1 -l
/var/samba/zerberos/log -s /etc/smb.conf-zerberos

Gunther Hess wrote:> 
> Hi out there,
>              i intend to run multiple Instancies of Samba
> on a single, multi-homed, server, with each instance bound
> to a specific (logical) interface.
> 
> If this works, it would be fine to me.
> Mainly for administrative Reasons. (You won't believe,
> but from time to time it becomes necessary to restart
> some services, but restarting the entire server is a
> real mess)
> 
> Well here my questions:
> 
>  - Most important:
>    Can anyone out there tell me, that this is definitely impossible?
> 
>  - Most helpful:
>    Which settings must appear in the Configuration, to split the
>    working-directories? (locks, logs, private-dir and so on)
> 
>  - Very interesting:
>    Has anyone experience with such a configuration?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Gunther
> --
-- 
Dr. Gunther Hess           Elmos Semiconductor AG
Tel.: ++49 +231 7549-520   Heinrich Hertz Str. 1
Fax:  ++49 +231 7549-109   D-44227 Dortmund
WWW: http://www.elmos.de   Opinions are strictly of my own
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#! /bin/sh
# @(#) Start-Script for Samba
# @(#) $Id: samba,v 1.4 2002/02/25 22:15:33 root Exp root $

# Please send info on modifications to ghess@elmos.de

PRGBASE=/opt/samba-2.2.3a

# CNFBASE is a script-debugging-variable

CNFBASE=""

# if /usr ist not mounted, give up without comments

if [ ! -d /usr/bin ]
then                    # /usr not mounted
        exit
fi

# Gunther's universal Path

PATH="/root/bin:/etc:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin"
PATH="/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/ucb:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin:${PATH}"

# /usr/lib is o.k. for Solaris, but not for SunOS or Linux
# but with Samba it is not crucial

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib

export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
#
# Add the Program-Base in front of the Path
#
if [ -d "$PRGBASE/bin" ]
then
  PATH="${PRGBASE}/bin:${PATH}"
fi
if [ -d "$PRGBASE/sbin" ]
then
  PATH="${PRGBASE}/sbin:${PATH}"
fi
if [ -d "$PRGBASE/lib" ]
then
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${PRGBASE}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"
fi
#
export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
#
# Save the arguments
#
OPARG="${1-help}"
if [ $# -gt 0 ]
then
 shift
fi
SVARG="$*"
#
# Which servers do "exist" ?
#
SERVERS=""
for F in $CNFBASE/etc/smb.conf-*
do
  if [ -f "$F" ]
  then
    SVR="`echo $F | sed -e 's/.*\/etc\/smb.conf-//'`"
    if [ "$SERVERS" = "" -o "$SERVERS" = "
" ]
    then
      SERVERS="$SVR"
    else
      SERVERS="$SERVERS $SVR"
    fi
  fi
done
if [ "$SERVERS" != "" -a "$SERVERS" != "
" ]
then
  if [ -f $CNFBASE/etc/nmb.conf ]
  then
    SERVERS="nmb $SERVERS"
  fi
elif [ -f $CNFBASE/etc/smb.conf ]
then
  SERVERS=simple
fi

if [ "$SERVERS" = "" -o "$SERVERS" = " "
]
then
  echo "###"
  echo "### cannot start/stop samba without configuration file(s)"
  echo "### (no /etc/smb.conf and/or /etc/smb.conf-<server>)"
  echo "###"
  exit 1
fi

if [ "$SVARG" = "" -o "$SVARG" = " " ]
then
  SVARG="$SERVERS"
fi
echo "  OPARG=$OPARG"
echo "  SVARG=$SVARG"
echo "SERVERS=$SERVERS"

# Verify SVARG

set $SVARG
SVARG=""
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
  MATCH=false
  for SVR in $SERVERS 
  do
    if [ "$1" = "$SVR" ]
    then
      MATCH=true
      if [ "$SVARG" = "" -o "$SVARG" = "
" ]
      then
        SVARG="$SVR"
      else
        SVARG="$SVARG $SVR"
      fi
      break
    fi
  done
  if [ "$MATCH" = "false" ]
  then
    echo "### Server $1 is not configured"
  fi
  shift
done

echo "  SVARG=$SVARG"

if [ "$SVARG" = "" -o "$SVRAG" = " " ]
then
  echo "###"
  echo "### no valid servers specified"
  echo "###"
  exit 1
fi

# Start/stop processes required for samba server

case "$OPARG" in

# Start Samba-Services

  start)
    for SVR in $SVARG
    do

      echo "#   starting Samba-Server $SVR"

      if [ "$SVR" = "simple" ]
      then
        for D in /var/samba \
                /var/samba/log /var/samba/locks /var/samba/private
        do
          mkdir -p $D
          chmod 755  $D
          chown 0 $D
          chgrp 0 $D
        done
        chmod 700 /var/samba/private
        if [ ! -f   /var/samba/private/smbpasswd ]
        then
          touch     /var/samba/private/smbpasswd
          chmod 700 /var/samba/private/smbpasswd
        fi

        rm -f /var/samba/locks/smbd.pid  /var/samba/locks/nmbd.pid 

        smbd -D -d 1 -l /var/samba/log -s $CNFBASE/etc/smb.conf 

        if [ -f "$CNFBASE/etc/lmhosts" ]
        then
          nmbd -D -d 1 -H $CNFBASE/etc/lmhosts -l /var/samba/log \
                  -s $CNFBASE/etc/smb.conf
        else
          nmbd -D -d 1 -l /var/samba/log -s $CNFBASE/etc/smb.conf
        fi

      else

        for D in /var/samba /var/samba/$SVR \
                /var/samba/$SVR/log /var/samba/$SVR/locks \
                /var/samba/$SVR/private
        do
          mkdir -p $D
          chmod 755  $D
          chown 0 $D
          chgrp 0 $D
        done
        chmod 700   /var/samba/$SVR/private
        if [ ! -f   /var/samba/$SVR/private/smbpasswd ]
        then
          touch     /var/samba/$SVR/private/smbpasswd
          chmod 700 /var/samba/$SVR/private/smbpasswd
        fi

        rm -f /var/samba/$SVR/locks/smbd.pid  /var/samba/$SVR/locks/nmbd.pid 

        if [ "$SVR" = "nmb" ]
        then
          if [ -f "$CNFBASE/etc/lmhosts" ]
          then
            nmbd -D -d 1 -H $CNFBASE/etc/lmhosts -l /var/samba/$SVR/log \
                    -s $CNFBASE/etc/nmb.conf
          else
            nmbd -D -d 1 -l /var/samba/$SVR/log -s $CNFBASE/etc/nmb.conf
          fi

        else

          smbd -D -d 1 -l /var/samba/$SVR/log -s $CNFBASE/etc/smb.conf-$SVR 

        fi
      fi
    done
  ;;

## Stop Samba-Services

  stop)
    for SVR in $SVARG
    do

      echo "#   stopping Samba-Server $SVR"

      if [ "$SVR" = "simple" ]
      then

        if [ -f     /var/samba/locks/smbd.pid ]
        then
          kill `cat /var/samba/locks/smbd.pid`
        fi

        if [ -f     /var/samba/locks/nmbd.pid ]
        then
          kill `cat /var/samba/locks/nmbd.pid`
        fi

        sleep 2

        rm -f /var/samba/locks/smbd.pid  /var/samba/locks/nmbd.pid

      else

        if [ -f     /var/samba/$SVR/locks/smbd.pid ]
        then
          kill `cat /var/samba/$SVR/locks/smbd.pid`
        fi

        if [ -f     /var/samba/$SVR/locks/nmbd.pid ]
        then
          kill `cat /var/samba/$SVR/locks/nmbd.pid`
        fi

        sleep 2

        rm -f /var/samba/$SVR/locks/smbd.pid  /var/samba/$SVR/locks/nmbd.pid 

      fi
    done
  ;;

## Help-Message

  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/samba { start | stop } [server]*"
  ;;
esac

exit 0
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# $Id: smb.conf-zerberos,v 1.35 2002/01/09 19:36:56 ghess Exp $

[global]
   workgroup               = devil
   log file                = /var/samba/zerberos/log/%M.%m
   max log size            = 2500
;  socket options          = TCP_NODELAY
;  keep alive              = 10
   log level               = 1
   syslog                  = 1
   utmp                    = true
   utmp directory          = /var/adm
   lock directory          = /var/samba/zerberos/locks
   time server             = yes

   bind interfaces only    = true
   interfaces              = 127.0.0.1/8 \
			     192.168.18.19/32

   netbios name            = zerberos

   load printers           = false
   encrypt passwords       = Yes
   smb passwd file         = /var/samba/zerberos/private/smbpasswd
   security                = user

;  I would prefer, that this machine is not a domain-master-browser,
;  but it has to, since othewise it would not be accepted by some
;  windows clients as the PDC. So sorry. GHess 11-Jan-2002

   os level                = 64
   local master            = yes
   domain master           = yes
   domain admin group      = +winadmin
   preferred master        = yes

;  Nevertheless, we try to move (keep) the wins server to the real
;  fileserver with samba-2.2.2. GHess 11-Jan-2002

   wins server             = samba1
   wins support            = no
   wins proxy              = no

   default case            = lower
   preserve case           = false
   short preserve case     = false
   mangle case             = no
   case sensitive          = no

;  apparently it is better to disable oplocks, with 2.2.2 too.
;  GHess 11-Jan-2002

   oplocks                 = false

;  Es wird ein spezielle NIS-MAp f?r die Heimatverzeichnisse verwendet
   nis homedir             = true
   homedir map             = auto.devil

;  Dies ist der Anmelde-Server!
   domain logons           = yes

;  Derzeit genau Ein Logon-Script unter netlogon zu finden
   logon script            = %M.bat

;  Die Profiles liegen in den PC-Heimatverzeichnissen
;  W95, WfW use logon home
;  all use the sharename as Home-Directory
   logon drive             = Z:
   logon home              = \\%N\%U\profiles\%a
;  logon path is used by NT
   logon path              = \\%N\%U\profiles\%a

;  Der netlogon-Dienst muss fuer jedermann lesbar sein

[netlogon]
   comment                 = Network Logon Scripts
   path                    = /var/samba/netlogon
   guest ok                = Yes
   writable                = no
   browseable              = yes
   root preexec            = /var/samba/etc/mklogon.sh %U %M %a %N
   root preexec close      = true
   write list              = @winadmin
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# $Id: smb.conf-devil1,v 1.31 2002/01/02 21:34:52 root Exp $
[global]
   config file             = /var/samba/etc/smb.conf-%L

   workgroup               = devil
   log file                = /var/samba/devil1/log/%M.%m
   max log size            = 2500
   socket options          = TCP_NODELAY
   keep alive              = 10
   log level               = 1
   syslog                  = yes
   utmp                    = true
   utmp directory          = /var/adm
   lock directory          = /var/samba/devil1/locks
   time server             = yes
   host msdfs              = true

   bind interfaces only    = true
   interfaces              = 192.168.18.20/32

   netbios name            = devil1
   netbios aliases         = devil2

   load printers           = false
   encrypt passwords       = Yes
   smb passwd file         = /var/samba/devil1/private/smbpasswd
   password server         = zerberos
   security                = server
   map to guest            = nobody

   os level                = 64
   local master            = yes
   domain master           = no
   domain admin group      = +winadmin
   preferred master        = yes
   wins server             = samba1
   wins support            = no
   wins proxy              = no

   default case            = lower
   preserve case           = false
   short preserve case     = false
   mangle case             = no
   case sensitive          = no

#==================== spezielle Shares des Servers ==========================
[homes]
   comment              = %u PC-Heimatverzeichnis
   path                 = /pchome/%u
   browseable           = yes
   read only            = no
   security mask           = 03777
   directory security mask = 03777
   inherit permissions     = true
   invalid users           = root

[common]
   comment             = Produktions Common Tree
   path                = /common
   read only           = no
   public              = no
   browseable          = yes
   security mask           = 03777
   directory security mask = 03777
   inherit permissions     = true
   invalid users           = root

Gary Algier

2002-Mar-01 13:34 UTC

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[Samba] Multiple Instancies of Samba on a single System

Yes, this works, however, you probably will want to build different
executables.  I first got it to work starting the daemons with
different configuration files, but then I had a problem with
smbpasswd: it has no config file option.  You can't make it
work differently for the different servers.  I just did multiple
configure/make runs:

     ./configure \
         --with-configdir=/etc/samba-red \
         --libdir=/etc/samba-red \
         --sharedstatedir=/var/samba-red/run \
         --localstatedir=/var/samba-red/run \
         --with-privatedir=/etc/samba-red/private \
         --with-lockdir=/var/samba-red/locks \
         ... && make &&
     make install INSTALLCMD="/bin/sh `/bin/pwd`/source/install-sh
-t='s/^/red-/'" &&
     make clean

     ./configure \
         --with-configdir=/etc/samba-blue \
         --libdir=/etc/samba-blue \
         --sharedstatedir=/var/samba-blue/run \
         --localstatedir=/var/samba-blue/run \
         --with-privatedir=/etc/samba-blue/private \
         --with-lockdir=/var/samba-blue/locks \
         ... && make &&
     make install INSTALLCMD="/bin/sh `/bin/pwd`/source/install-sh
-t='s/^/blue-/'" &&
     make clean

With this the smpbasswd that uses the /etc/samba-red/smb.conf file is named
"red-smbpasswd", etc.

However, to get the install to work correctly I needed to force the Makefile
to use the proper install-sh, not the in-line copies as the Makefile is
supplied.  The install-sh can do name translations.  The patch to make this
happen is:

Index: source/Makefile.in
==================================================================RCS file:
/u/itsrc/cvs/networking/fs/samba/source/Makefile.in,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.10
retrieving revision 1.1.1.10.2.1
diff -u -r1.1.1.10 -r1.1.1.10.2.1
--- Makefile.in 2002/02/06 16:18:58     1.1.1.10
+++ Makefile.in 2002/02/07 18:25:01     1.1.1.10.2.1
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@

  LINK=$(CC) $(FLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)

-INSTALLCMD=@INSTALL@
+INSTALLCMD=/bin/sh @srcdir@/install-sh

  VPATH=@srcdir@
  srcdir=@srcdir@
@@ -654,18 +654,23 @@
  install: installbin installman installscripts installcp installswat

  installdirs:
-       $(SHELL) $(srcdir)/install-sh -d -m $(INSTALLPERMS) \
+       $(INSTALLCMD) -d -m $(INSTALLPERMS) \
         $(BASEDIR) $(SBINDIR) $(BINDIR) $(LIBDIR) $(VARDIR) $(CODEPAGEDIR)

  installservers: all installdirs
-       @$(SHELL) $(srcdir)/script/installbin.sh $(INSTALLPERMS) $(BASEDIR)
$(SBINDIR) $(LIBDIR) $(VARDIR) $(SPROGS)
+       @echo Installing $(SPROGS) to $(SBINDIR)
+       @for f in $(SPROGS) ; do $(INSTALLCMD) -c -m $(INSTALLPERMS) $$f
$(SBINDIR) ; done

  installbin: all installdirs
-       @$(SHELL) $(srcdir)/script/installbin.sh $(INSTALLPERMS) $(BASEDIR)
$(SBINDIR) $(LIBDIR) $(VARDIR) $(SPROGS) $(WINBIND_SPROGS)
-       @$(SHELL) $(srcdir)/script/installbin.sh $(INSTALLPERMS) $(BASEDIR)
$(BINDIR) $(LIBDIR) $(VARDIR) $(PROGS) $(WINBIND_PROGS)
+       @echo Installing $(SPROGS) $(WINBIND_SPROGS) to $(SBINDIR)
+       @for f in $(SPROGS) $(WINBIND_SPROGS) ; do $(INSTALLCMD) -c -m
$(INSTALLPERMS) $$f $(SBINDIR) ; done
+       @echo Installing $(PROGS) $(WINBIND_PROGS) to $(SBINDIR)
+       @for f in $(PROGS) $(WINBIND_PROGS) ; do $(INSTALLCMD) -c -m
$(INSTALLPERMS) $$f $(BINDIR) ; done

  installscripts: installdirs
-       @$(SHELL) $(srcdir)/script/installscripts.sh $(INSTALLPERMS) $(BINDIR)
$(SCRIPTS)
+       @echo Installing $(SCRIPTS) to $(BINDIR)
+       @for f in  $(SCRIPTS) ; do $(INSTALLCMD) -c -m $(INSTALLPERMS) $$f
$(BINDIR) ; done
+

  installcp: installdirs installbin
         @$(SHELL) $(srcdir)/script/installcp.sh $(srcdir) $(LIBDIR)
$(CODEPAGEDIR) $(BINDIR) $(CODEPAGELIST)

Index: source/script/installcp.sh
==================================================================RCS file:
/u/itsrc/cvs/networking/fs/samba/source/script/installcp.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1.30.1
diff -u -r1.1.1.1 -r1.1.1.1.30.1
--- installcp.sh        2001/04/20 14:30:40     1.1.1.1
+++ installcp.sh        2002/02/07 18:25:02     1.1.1.1.30.1
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@
  for p in $*; do
   if [ -f ${srcdir}/codepages/codepage_def.$p ]; then
     echo Creating codepage file $CODEPAGEDIR/codepage.$p
-   $BINDIR/make_smbcodepage c $p ${srcdir}/codepages/codepage_def.$p
$CODEPAGEDIR/codepage.$p
+   ${srcdir}/bin/make_smbcodepage c $p ${srcdir}/codepages/codepage_def.$p
$CODEPAGEDIR/codepage.$p
   fi
   if [ -f ${srcdir}/codepages/CP${p}.TXT ]; then
     echo Creating unicode map $CODEPAGEDIR/unicode_map.$p
-   $BINDIR/make_unicodemap $p ${srcdir}/codepages/CP${p}.TXT
$CODEPAGEDIR/unicode_map.$p
+   ${srcdir}/bin/make_unicodemap $p ${srcdir}/codepages/CP${p}.TXT
$CODEPAGEDIR/unicode_map.$p
   fi
  done

[If these changes became part of the official code, it would be nice so we
could take advantage of the options supported by install-sh.]

Gunther Hess wrote:> Hi out there,
>              i intend to run multiple Instancies of Samba
> on a single, multi-homed, server, with each instance bound
> to a specific (logical) interface.
> 
> If this works, it would be fine to me. 
> Mainly for administrative Reasons. (You won't believe, 
> but from time to time it becomes necessary to restart
> some services, but restarting the entire server is a
> real mess)
> 
> Well here my questions:
> 
>  - Most important: 
>    Can anyone out there tell me, that this is definitely impossible?
> 
>  - Most helpful: 
>    Which settings must appear in the Configuration, to split the
>    working-directories? (locks, logs, private-dir and so on)
> 
>  - Very interesting:
>    Has anyone experience with such a configuration?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Gunther
> 

-- 
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Ulticom Inc., 1020 Briggs Rd, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054      Fax:+1 856 866 2033

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