Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
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Printed | Page 11 5th paragraph |
Book states "Name your first user account Administrator and give it the user ID of admin" |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 11 2nd to the last paragraph |
States "Debian will also want you to configure Exim as the MTA." Debian never asked about configuring |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 15 3rd paragraph: |
The text says: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 16 3rd paragraph: Restarting inetd |
The text says: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 17 6th paragraph: You will encounter |
The text says: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 18 4th paragraph |
States to issue a quotaon -avug, this did not function correctly for me without a reboot. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 19 3rd paragraph: OPTS |
The text says: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 19 last paragraph |
Changing the startup script /etc/init.d/sysklogd, it suggest of changing a line: SYSLOGD="" |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 19 Bottom of the page |
The second last paragraph reads to say the following text. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 22 from page 22 to 32 |
With current debian postfix version in July 2007, this whole section is almost useless, very little of it matches the current software. The screens are very different. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 26 Sentence at the bottom of page 26 |
Where the authors say not to worry about commands that don't make sense to you is very frustrating; it assumes that the user has older software, but doesn't specify which version is being described. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 29 On page 29, the mailbox_command does not exist in the file, but otherwise it is accurate. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 30 The PARAMS variable appears to have been replaced by the OPTIONS variable in the current software. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 30 In mid page |
The line dir=`dpkg-statoverride --list $PWDIR` doesn't exist in the current version, they have reworked all that code. The dpkg-statoverride command is now run in an if, not obvious what should be done about it. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 30 The PWDIR variable in saslauthd, now it is calculated dynamically from the -m option if it is passed in OPTIONS variab! le. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 30 The dir="root sasl 775 $ {PWDIR}" really doesn't make sense and I can't figure out where to put it in the revised file, so I left it out. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 32 When I do saslauthd start, it is silent, probably because the dir line was not inserted. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 32 When I try to telnet into the localhost 25, debian says telnet is not found. When I do it from my client machine, there is no listener; I can telnet to port 22 (SSH). Thus I do not seem to have successfully brought up postfix for SMTP service, and don't k |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 33 12 lines from the bottom |
Current version of apache2 in July 2007 (only 4 months after publication) is 2.2.3-4, and in current |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 35 2nd para |
The path is /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf, not /etc/proftpd.conf. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 35 Bottom para |
The webalizer installation does not ask any questions, it just sets up to use /var/www/webalizer path. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 36 Section on Synchronizing the System Clock |
You should recommend doing apt-get install ntp to install the ntp module and daemon, and then configure |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 42 I may be wrong but when chrooting DNS don't you need to issue the chroot command at some point? The |
chapter on DNS goes through the steps of creating the chroot environment but does not follow through by |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 75 Description of packages needed for installing ISPConfig |
The details of packages required a really very vague. In particular for Debian Lenny I needed libmysqlclient15-dev. |
amw2 | Jul 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 100 last 2 sentences before source code |
With respect to the following from "Unconfirmed Error Reports" |
Anonymous | Nov 21, 2008 |
Printed | Page 101 line 2 |
The option "-config ./monit.cnf" will cause openssl to fail because monit.cnf does not exist (we just |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 109 Table 5-1 |
.smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU) |
weakish | Sep 18, 2010 |
Printed | Page 166 picture (Figure 8-1) |
p. 165 (Configuring the network), 4th line: |
Anonymous |