Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page xvi In the acknowledgements, , there was a blank |
missing between Matthias Ettrich's last name and the following "and." This has been CORRECTED. |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2003 | |
Printed | Page xvii In the acknowledgements, in the section about the author's colleagues at Klardlvdalens |
Datakonsult AB, Michael Boyer de la Giroday's name was spelled incorrectly |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2003 | |
Printed | Page xii 3rd paragraph |
"Linux supports of the features of modern Unix-based operating systems" |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 16 4th paragraph, 2nd line |
Using at processing system... |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2003 | |
Printed | Page 19 2nd paragraph |
"The most commonly used compiler on Linux is the GNU's Compiler Collection . . ." |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 20 2nd paragraph |
"Chapter 13, and Chapter 14 are devoted to the programming languages . . . " |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 24 |
http://www.plex86.org |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2003 | |
Printed | Page 33 5th paragraph |
www.tlpd.org |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2003 | |
Printed | Page 44 7th paragraph |
"In this case, you need to delete enough unwanted software to allow the rest to fit on the smaller partitions." |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 45 4th paragraph |
"You can lose all the software on your system if you do not repartition the drive correctly." |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 47 1st paragraph |
"Appendix A, lists sources of information for installation instructions and other help" |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 53 4th paragraph |
"other systems, such PowerPC, SPARC, and m68k, do not have logical and extended partitions." |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 62 8th paragraph |
"It boots a number of operating systems, including Windows and Linux, and allows |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 72 2nd paragraph |
"All devices in your machine use an interrupt request line" |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 76 1st paragraph |
tmx8xx NOW READS tmc8xx. |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 90 4th paragraph |
"Ctrl-S stops the terminal output until you turn it off again with Ctrl-Q." |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 95 In Section 4.9, in the following statement |
"The shell sends all the input from the du program to the sort program." |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2003 | |
Printed | Page 107 descriptions for .emacs and .exrc |
Both places have the phrase "in Chapter 11." The word "in" previously was boldfaced. |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 118 3rd paragraph |
"Just running it as described previously while only change your user id." |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 122 2nd paragraph from the bottom, 4th line |
plebian |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 136 4th paragraph |
"This greatly increases performance as disks are extremely slow relative to the |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 168 last line |
mkswap -c /swap 8192 |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2003 | |
Printed | Page 190 3rd paragraph, inset |
lrwxrwxrw 1 root root 17 Dec 10 1999 /lib/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.4.2 |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 439 second half of the page |
In the code of the extensive makefile example: |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2004 | |
Printed | Page 509 3rd Paragraph, 3rd line under Networking with TCP/IP |
hoard |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2003 | |
Printed | Page 525 6th paragraph |
/etc/syslogd.conf NOW READS /etc/syslog.conf |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 | |
Printed | Page 594 IN PRINT: 1st paragraph, last sentence |
"...or the "Network Administrators Guide" (O'Reilly)." |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2003 | |
Printed | Page 617 4th para (excluding code samples) line begining "Save this file as" |
Book said "Save the file as phpinfo.php" but then said access this file at |
Anonymous | Dec 01, 2003 | |
Printed | Page 645 2nd-to-last and 3rd-to-last entries |
Mourani, Gerhard. Securing and Optimizing Linux Red Hat Edition -- A Hands-on |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 2005 |