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 xviii The following text was added to the preface |
"How to Contact Us |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page xviii |
The text used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 36 The Hardware HOWTO reference was [70], it is now [68] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 37 |
Third paragraph from the bottom, the second sentence read: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 42 The second paragraph under "Internet Mailing Lists" has been |
deleted |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 47 There is a typo on page 47 under "Getting Linux via Mail Order or |
Other Hard Media". Last sentence of 2nd para |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 62 The SCSI HOWTO reference was [71], it is now [69] |
The CD-ROM HOWTO reference was [73], it is now [71] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 80 In the last paragraph: |
'can hang the entire system when they auto-probed' |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 84 The SCSI HOWTO reference was [71], it is now [69] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 104 In the last paragraph, the sentence used to read: |
"This construct works in every shell except the original Bourne shell" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 118 Items 6 and 7 in the list, ".Xdefaults" and ".xinitrc" |
Both of these point to sections in Chapter 10, "The X Resource Database" |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 125 The Unix Sys. Admin reference was [58], it is now [56] |
The Essential Sys. Admin reference was [59], it is now [57] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 139 "14984" was changed to "14984k", and "1500K" was changed to "1400k" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 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 |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 178 The text in the second paragraph used to read: |
if /dev/hda |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 213 In the first line, "make" and all text following it on that line |
was removed. |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 220 The Ftape HOWTO reference was [89], it is now [87] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 222 In the first full paragraph: |
"if ISDN" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 222 In the 4th paragraph from end: |
"are is shown" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 241 In the second paragraph from bottom, the sentence starting: |
"The following command should..." |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 246 The second line of code under "Setting Up the Printcap File" |
read: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 247 |
The code at the bottom of the page read: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 255 The Printing HOWTO reference was [84], it is now [82] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 260 In the middle of the page |
usr/sbin/lpd |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 265 Fourth paragraph from the bottom, second line |
lpc's cleanup command |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 269 In the second paragraph |
/etc/rc.d/c.local |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 291 Second paragraph: |
in my mind |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 315 In the third from last paragraph: |
"but whether this true remains to be seen" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 320 The filename in first paragraph used to read: |
"myscreen.xpm" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 321 In the paragraph under "mogrify", a closing parenthesis was added |
after "-format" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 353 |
The X-100-3-x3 reference now reads: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 356 Third paragraph, first line |
the K Development Environment .... |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 370 |
Bottom of the page, the heading read: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 405 In the fourth paragraph, change: |
"browsable" |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 410 In the duconv examples: |
"dos text file" was changed to: |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 414 "in the /root directory" |
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Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 423 The C Progr. Language reference was [35], it is now [34] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 424 In the last example, the boldface "hello" was changed to "./hello" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 431 The make reference was [48], it is now [46] |
The GNU make reference was [49], it is now [47] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 443 The Programming Perl reference was [40], it is now [39] |
The Learning Perl reference was [39], it is now [38] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 449 The Learning Perl reference was [39], it is now [38] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 452 The Tcl/Tk Nutshell reference was [44], it is now [43] |
The Tcl/Tk reference was [43], it is now [42] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 462 The Advanced Programming reference was [36], it is now [35] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 464 The Thinking in Java reference was [55], it is now [53] |
The Exploring Java reference was [56], it is now [54] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 465 In the second line: |
"uninstall" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 468 The Programming Python reference was [54], it is now [52] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 472 The gdb reference was [52], it is now [50] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 485 The gdb reference was [52], it is now [50] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 499 The Programming with QT reference was [47], it is now [45] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 510 In the first line, add the word "login" in Courier bold to |
the end of the line. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 515 The Ethernet HOWTO reference was [76], it is now [74] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 522 The Ethernet HOWTO reference was [76], it is now [74] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 531 In the first line |
'/etc/hosts' |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 533 The Ethernet HOWTO reference was [76], it is now [74] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 541 In the second to last paragraph, "ASDN" was changed to "ADSL" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 549 In the 2nd paragraph: |
"dial your remote rite automatically" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 551 In the 2nd paragraph: |
"exampleNFS" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 558 In the 2nd paragraph: |
"(via either Ethernet or SLIP)" |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 562 The Apache reference was [34], it is now [33] |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 615 In the 1st paragraph: |
'succesful' |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 615 5th paragraph "X does does" there should be only one 'does'. |
Anonymous | |||
Printed | Page 616 |
Last paragraph, first sentence read: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 624 In the 2nd from last paragraph: |
'or updating or maintain the programs' |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 672 The following option was taken from the boot=boot-device option |
compact |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 673 The following options have either been changed from the text that |
was originally in the book, or added to the page: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 674 The following options have either been changed from the original |
text in the book, or added to the page: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 676 The following options have either been changed from the original |
book, or added to the page: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 677 The following option is now the last option before the heading |
"Kernel Options" |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 693 The following entry has changed from the original which was found |
on page 694: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 694 The reference numbers under the "Programming Languages and |
Utilities" heading have changed. The following is a list of the changed |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 695 The following reference numbers have changed from the original |
text and now read: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 696 The following reference numbers have been changed to the |
following: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 697 The following reference numbers have been changed to the |
following: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 698 The following reference numbers have changed to the following |
[67] UUCP HOWTO .... |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 699 The following reference numbers have changed to the following |
[76] DNS HOWTO .... |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 700 The following reference numbers have changed to the following |
[84] UMSDOSS HOWTO .... |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 701 These reference numbers have changed to the following |
[92] RFC 1034. .... |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 702 |
The following reference number has been changed to read: |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 703 In the first column, under the "<" entry, shell, 105" has been |
deleted. |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 704 The page number for "append= option" has changed from 676 to 677 |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 706 The following has been added as an index entry |
compact option (LILO), 672 |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 711 The following has been added as an index entry |
fix-table option (LILO), 673 |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 714 The following index entry was added |
install= option (LILO), 673 |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 715 The following index entry has changed from |
KDE (K Development Environment) |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 716 The following index entries have been added |
linear option (LILO), 673 |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 720 The following index entries have been added |
optional (global) option (LILO), 674 |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 723 The following index entry was added |
prompt option (LILO), 674 |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 728 The following index entry was added |
unstate option (LILO), 677 |
Anonymous | Nov 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 730 Change the index entry |
"XF86Config program" |
Anonymous |