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Errata for Essential CVS, Second Edition

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Version	Location	Description	Submitted By	Date submitted	Date corrected
Printed	Page 22 Sixth command line on the page	Every command on pages 21-22 preceding the 6th command on page 22 work as the book shows. I differ from the book only in that I sudo each command, but successfully so until I submit the command chown -R cvs /var/lib/cvsroot The failure message is chown: invalid user: `cvs' I log this reaction after a brief Web search for the error failed to shed any light on this impediment. Note from the Author or Editor: I could have written this more clearly. As I state in the second paragraph after those commands, there should be a separate user (ie, not 'root') for running the CVS server. It would have been better to put that paragraph ahead of those commands. The "invalid user: 'cvs'" error message is stating that there is no such user created at that point. Read on two paragraphs after those commands to find out how to make a user. My mistake there. Jennifer Vesperman.	Ivan Soto	Apr 15, 2011