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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 "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



Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page 53
The strange dash in the middle of the page HAS BEEN CHANGED to an em-dash.

Anonymous  Jul 2004
Printed Page 136
3rd para

"keeping out everyone but those who are determined to undermine your logging
infrastructure"

NOW READS:
"keeping out everyone but those who are the most determined to undermine
your logging infrastructure"

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 158
code in mid of page, line 2

"--with-nagis-grp=nagios"

NOW READS:
"--with-nagios-grp=nagios"

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 169
2nd-to-last text paragraph

"This command will ... write its logs to /tmp/argus."

NOW READS:
"This command will ... write its logs to /tmp/arguslog."

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 173
mid of page

"To create a pcap.ini"

NOW READS:
"To create a rpcapd.ini"

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 176
2nd paragraph, first sentence

"Ipsec-based"

NOW READS:
"IPsec-based"

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 177
line 13 from bottom

"Ipsec"

NOW READS:
"IPsec"

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 179
line 10 of code on top

should be a standard paragraph instead of part of the code

Anonymous 
Printed Page 179
line 14 from bottom

"Install raccoon"
should be:
"Install racoon"

Anonymous 
Printed Page 191
line 1

"-L8080"

NOW READS:
"-L8000"

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 227
para in mid of page, line 3-4

"Snort's ... processors"

NOW READS:
"Snort's ... preprocessors"

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 245
2nd paragraph, 3rd line

"run" was previously formatted as "literal" text.

This HAS BEEN CORRECTED and now appears as normal body text.

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 249
6th text paragraph

"when you when you want to..."

NOW READS:
"when you want to..."

AND

"on the host that the firewall is install fwexec or fwsamed on"

NOW READS:
"on the host that the firewall is installed on"
(delete " fwexec or fwsam")

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 255
code in mid of page, line 2

"filnemae" -> "filename"

Anonymous 
Printed Page 258
line 10

"directory" was previously formatted in constant-width font.

THIS HAS BEEN CORRECTED and appears in normal body text font.

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 260
line 8

"sessiondid"

NOW READS:
"sessionid"

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 262
2nd paragraph, 5th line

Missing space between "standard" and "./configure"
HAS BEEN CORRECTED.

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 265
line 4-5

"to forward any port to a host on another machine"

NOW READS:
"to forward any port to a port on another machine"

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 277
(+ Indexentry on page 295 for "system binaries:verifying ...")

Six occurences of "chrootkit" (page 277) and Index entry

NOW READ:
"chkrootkit"

Anonymous  Apr 2005
Printed Page 289
left column, "mail transfer agents (MTAs)"

"support for FLS"

NOW READS:
"support for TLS"

Anonymous  Apr 2005