Linux Cookbook
by Carla Schroder

This errata page lists errors outstanding in the most recent printing.

If you have technical questions or error reports, you can send them to
booktech@oreilly.com.  Please specify the printing date of your copy.

This page was updated March 20, 2007.

Here's a key to the markup:
	[page-number]: serious technical mistake
	{page-number}: minor technical mistake
	<page-number>: important language/formatting problem
	(page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
	?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification



Confirmed errors:


(2)  third line from bottom;
"and you can't make them them do what you want"
should be:
"and you can't make them do what you want"


{5}  1st paragraph of Discussion section;
"These commands perform keyword searches in the Description sections"
should be:
"These commands perform keyword searches in the NAME sections"


(53)  description of "GNU coreutils", 2nd sentence;
"See http://www.gnu.org/software/cororeutils/ for a complete listing"
should be:
"See http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ for a complete listing"


(54): Last sentence of last paragraph of "Discussion"
Reads: "And it's a also an important safety measure..."
Should be: "And it's also an important safety measure..."


(59):
Near bottom of page, under "Solution", Use lspci:
Reads:
# /sbin/lscpi
# /sbin/lspci -v
# /sbin/lspci -vv
Should be:
# /sbin/lspci
# /sbin/lspci -v
# /sbin/lspci -vv


[73]  First paragraph
"regardless of what .joerc says."
Should be:
"regardless of what .joercprefs says.

{113}  Last example of "Solution" in Recipe 8.10;
# passwd -S option
should be:
# passwd -s aborg
(Note that the -s should be lowercase)


(160)  1st paragraph of Discussion section, 2nd sentence;
"available from http://e2fprogs.sourceforge.net"
should be:
"available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net"



(197)  4th example;
There is a missing space before filename.wav:

Orig:
$ mpg123 -b 10000 -s filename.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c 2 -filname.wav

Should be:
$mpg123 -b 10000 -s filename.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c 2 - filename.wav


{221}  4th line from top;
$ convert -depth 14 ...
should be:
$ convert -colors 14 ...


(229)  3rd Paragraph;
A entire
should be
An entire


(235)  3rd Paragraph;
Missing space makes command ambiguous:
//windbag/lan_share/mnt/samba
should be
//windbag/lan_share /mnt/samba


(239)  4th Paragraph;
inde-pent
should be
independent

AND

productes
should be
products


(240)  1st Paragraph;
defintions
should be
definitions


(256)  3rd Paragraph under Hardware section;
GPU
should be
CPU


(261)  "See Also" section, 1st bullet item;
http://www.xfree86.org/resources.html
should be:
http://www.xfree86.org/sos/resources.html


{297}  Near top of page, "mondoarchive" command line;

# mondoarchive -OVmF -5 -S /tmp/scratch -T /tmp/mondo -E "/home /shared /var/www" \
-i -d /tmp/iso

should be:

# mondoarchive -OVmF -5 -S /tmp/scratch -T /tmp/mondo -E "/home /shared /var/www" \
-i -d /tmp/iso -s 4200m


{297}  "Discussion" section, after last command line option ("-d");

Append the line:

-s  The size of the backup media (or, if an .iso is being created, the maximum size
    of the .iso file).  The size we specified in the solution above, 4200 MB, should
    allow the .iso to fit easily onto a standard 4.7 GB DVD.


(367), code example at the top of the page: 
reads 
mtpd_banner = ...
should be 
smtpd_banner = ...


(447)  4th Paragraph;
Common Internet System/Server Message Block
should be
Common Internet File System/Server Message Block