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.
| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
Date Submitted |
Date Corrected |
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Page 7
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The fourth line of the fourth paragraph now reads:
"than any user may su to root;"
Should read:
"then any user may su to root;"
|
Anonymous |
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Page 71
para. 1 (beginning "This command send the list...") |
added new sentence to the end of the paragraph:
(In case you are wondering, the square brackets
around the "d" in the grep command prevent the
grep command itself from being included in the
list returned by ps.)
"grep" (both occurances) and "ps" are in bold.
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 76
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The last paragraph did read:
"we've look at"
Now reads:
"we've looked at"
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
| Printed |
Page 77
In the last code sample, changed |
"ls -1"
to:
"ls -l"
(letter l not number 1).
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
| Printed |
Page 78
In the first code sample, changed |
"ls -1"
to:
"ls -l"
(letter l not number 1).
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
| Printed |
Page 79
para. following the 1st example, line 8: changed |
"Both tar commands give detailed" to
"The second tar command gives detailed"
("tar" is in bold.)
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 169
para. 3 (begining "Filename completion..."), line 2 |
changed "(the key sequence is ESCAPE ESCAPE)" to
"(the key sequence is usually ESCAPE ESCAPE)"
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 220
beginning of para.4: changed "local_auth_prog" |
to "local_tmp_auth_prog" (still in italics.)
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 227
footnote: changed "Issac" to "Isaac" |
|
Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 234
note: changed "Garfinkle" to "Garfinkel" |
|
Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 265
sample syslog.conf at the bottom of the page |
changed line 1
*.err /dev/console
to
*.err;auth.notice /dev/console
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 265
para. after code sample syslog.conf, last line |
on the page: changed "/usr/adm/messages" to
"/var/adm/messages" (in italics)
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 319
last line: changed |
# swapon -l 5000 -m 10000 /chem
to
# swapon -l 5000 -r 10000 /chem
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 356
para. 3 (beginning "The final section..."), last |
sentence: changed "touch /etc/no_lucia" to
"touch /etc/.no_lucia" (in bold).
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 359
para. 2 (beginning "The file containing..."), |
last line: changed "and fsck is run if it is anything"
to "and fsck isn't run if it is anything" ("fsck" is
bold).
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 398
In paragraph 6, the "except ..." phrase was deleted |
and "generally" was added before "available" to read:
"fuser is generally on all of the systems we are considering."
|
Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 412
line 6: "**UNKNOWN XREF**" now reads "The following table" |
|
Anonymous |
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Nov 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 429
|
The first line of the first full code block did read:
# prtvtoc /devrdsk/c0t2d0s2
Now reads:
# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s2
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
| Printed |
Page 436
2nd code sample, line 7: changed |
#fsck -y /dev/rsk/dksd3s0
to
#fsck -y /dev/rsk/dks0d3s0
(in constant-width bold)
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 455
|
The text toward the end of the second paragraph read:
cdata is a striped logical volume, writing data to all three disks in
parallel. It uses identically sized sections from each physical disk.
chrome illustrates the way that a filesystem can be spread across
multiple physical disks, even noncontiguously in the case of hdisk3.
It now reads:
chome is a striped logical volume, writing data to all three disks in
parallel. It uses identically sized sections from each physical disk.
cdata illustrates the way that a filesystem can be spread across
multiple physical disks, even noncontiguously in the case of hdisk3.
|
Anonymous |
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Oct 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 485
line 30 |
/chem/pub/old/gold/dat
now reads
/chem/pub/old/gold.dat
|
Anonymous |
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Nov 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 493
para. 3 (beginning "The root filesystem"), line 5 |
changed "points to the SunOS partition" to
"points to the SCO UNIX partition"
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 502
Data Copying and Conversion with dd: changed descriptions of ibs and |
obs to read "... block size, which must be a
multiple of the system block size (which is usually 512 bytes)."
Also, in the example command: changed 'ibs=2' to 'ibs=1024'.
|
Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 502
for "ibs" and "obs", changed |
"which must be a multiple of the system block size (which is usually
512 bytes)."
to
"in bytes (the default is 512)."
|
Anonymous |
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Nov 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 505
In the table at the top of the page, the AIX line for Non-rewinding |
did read:
"/devrmt0.1"
Now reads:
"/dev/rmt0.1"
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2001 |
| Printed |
Page 544
last line of text (before footnotes): changed "acun" to |
"cuan" (the cua is in itals and the n is Roman)
|
Anonymous |
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Oct 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 553
para. 2: changed "the old lock file and socket" to "the old |
|
Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 594
para.5 (beginning "To disable this daemon") added |
new sentence to the end:
(On AIX systems, use SMIT to remove the service.)
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 596
para. 3, (after code sample), line 1: changed |
"In the packet with sequence number d71b960" to
"In the packet with sequence number d71b9601"
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 614
para.4 (beginning "These same commands"), changed |
"between boots." to
"between boots (be sure that mountd is started first)."
("mountd" is italics.)
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
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Page 643
para. 3, line 2; changed the second "aliases" to |
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 648
code sample, last line: changed |
# cp arch/i386/boot/zImage/vmlinuz
to
# cp arch/i386/boot/zImage/ vmlinuz
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 676
2nd bullet, code line 2: changed |
0 * * * * /usr/lib/acct/ckpacct
to
30 3 * * * /usr/lib/acct/ckpacct
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 677
next-to-last line: changed "rprtmmnn" to "rprtmmdd" |
|
Anonymous |
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Oct 01, 1997 |
| Printed |
Page 688
last line: changed |
if [ -z /tmp/th ]
to
if [ -s /tmp/th ]
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 693
2nd example, 1st line: changed |
etc/fsck -p >/dev/console
to
/etc/fsck -p >/dev/console
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 704
4th bullet: changed |
82 Linux filesystem
83 Swap partition
to
82 Swap partition
83 Linux filesystem
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 711
para. 1: changed email address of Sys Admin |
magazine from "sasub@rd.pub.com" to "www.samag.com/
sub" (italics)
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 712
procps entry: changed |
/pub/linux/system/Status/ps
to
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Status/ps
|
Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 740
The index entry for "nroff command" has had the reference to page 393 |
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 755
The index entry for "troff facility" has had the reference to page 393 |
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 760
added the following to the end of the next-to-last para |
Whenever possible, our books use RepKover (tm), a durable and
flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover's limit,
perfect binding is used.
|
Anonymous |
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Oct 01, 1997 |
