Running Linux, 3ed by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, and Lar Kaufman Following are the changes made in the 5/00 reprint. Here's a key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification The following text was added to the preface: "How to Contact Us We have tested and verified the information in this book to the best of our ability, but you may find that features have changed (or even that we have made mistakes!). Please let us know about any errors you find, as well as your suggestions for future editions, by writing to: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. 101 Morris Street Sebastopol, CA 95472 1-800-998-9938 (in the U.S. or Canada) 1-707-829-0515 (international/local) 1-707-829-0104 (FAX) You can also send us messages electronically. To be put on the mailing list or request a catalog, send email to: info@oreilly.com To ask technical questions or comment on the book, send email to: bookquestions@oreilly.com We have a web site for the book, where we'll list examples, errata, and any plans for future editions. You can access this page at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781565924697/ For more information about this book and others, see the O'Reilly web site: http://www.oreilly.com" The text used to read: "It was Andy who approached us about writing for in the first place..." It now reads: "It was Andy who approached us about writing for O'Reilly in the first place..." (104) In the last paragraph, the sentence used to read: "This construct works in every shell except the original Bourne shell" It now reads: "This construct works in almost every modern Unix shell." {139} "14984" was changed to "14984k", and "1500K" was changed to "1400k" {156-7} Two-thirds of the way down, after the "gid:" on page 156, 51 was changed to 117. At the end of the first paragraph on page 157, 51 was changed to 117. {178} The text in the second paragraph used to read: if /dev/hda It now reads: if /dev/hda3 <213> In the first line, "make" and all text following it on that line was removed. (222) In the first full paragraph: "if ISDN" was changed to: "of ISDN" (222) In the 4th paragraph from end: "are is shown" was changed to: are shown (241) In the second paragraph from bottom, the sentence starting: "The following command should..." Was changed to read: "The following command outputs some text suited for testing a printer setup, which you can redirect to your printer:" [269] In the second paragraph: /etc/rc.d/c.local was changed to read: /etc/rc.d/rc.local (315) In the third from last paragraph: "but whether this true remains to be seen" was changed to read: "but whether this is true remains to be seen" {320} The filename in first paragraph used to read: "myscreen.xpm" It now reads: "myscreen.tiff" {321} In the paragraph under "mogrify", a closing parenthesis was added after "-format" [410] In the duconv examples: "dos text file" was changed to: "dos_text_file" and "unix text file" was changed to: "unix_text_file" in both examples {414} "in the /root directory" was changed to: "in the / root directory" all in Roman. Note the space between / and root. {424} In the last example, the boldface "hello" was changed to "./hello" (465) In the second line: "uninstall" was changed to: "install" {531} In the first line: '/etc/hosts' was changed to read: '/etc/host.conf'. (541) In the second to last paragraph, "ASDN" was changed to "ADSL" (549) In the 2nd paragraph: "dial your remote rite automatically" was changed to: "dial your remote site automatically" (551) In the 2nd paragraph: "exampleNFS" was changed to: "example NFS" (558) In the 2nd paragraph: "(via either Ethernet or SLIP)" was changed to: "(via either Ethernet or PPP)"