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
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Printed | Page xii 3rd paragraph, 2nd line |
You may establish an online account with VUE and |
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Printed | Page 20 middle |
2nd example for "cut" should be: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 21 In the middle of page |
The -l option doesn't exist. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 23 Top |
The 'A' style doesn't exist. It should be 'a'. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 24 Frequently used options |
Type 'A' for the -t option doesn't exist. The type should be an lowercase 'a'. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 24 Frequently used options |
Type 'O' for the -t option doesn't exist. The type should be an lowercase 'o'. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 26 The option of split |
n in "-n" should be italic, because n is a number. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 28 tail: Frequently used options |
The option -f is explained twice. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 32 Example 3 |
Example 3 is incomplete. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 32 Upper half of page, flag 'y' |
AFAIK 'y' isn't a valid flag for the 's'-command. 'y' is a command. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 60 middle of page : examples |
"that contain either Linux or linux, ..." |
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Printed | Page 65 Table 1-13 |
Examples '[a-z]' and '[^a-z]'. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 67 Example 5 |
Is the '+' necessary? |
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Printed | Page 68 Example 2 |
The Example shows |
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Printed | Page 75 1st paragraph |
A swap partition is "swap partition" not "/swap partition". The command fdisk and the |
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Printed | Page 75 2nd to last paragraph |
Sentence reads: "See Figure 1-1 later in this chapter for a graphic depiction..." I |
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Printed | Page 76 fdisk description, 3rd line |
Text reads: "If omitted, device dafaults to /dev/hda." |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 77 command t |
The type of filesystem is displayed in hexadecimal not octal. |
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Printed | Page 78 the last sentence |
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Printed | Page 79 Line 14 ~ 15 (includes blank lines) |
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Printed | Page 79 Line 28 ~ 29 (includes blank lines) |
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Printed | Page 98 quotaon command example 2 |
<snip> |
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Printed | Page 103 Enabling Quotas example |
After step 1 of the example I think you should umount and mount the |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 105 Table 1-16 |
If a person has 'x' permission to the directory, he can 'cd' into that directory. But |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 108 |
The third line refers to Figure 1-3, when in reality I think it's supposed to refer to Figure 1-2. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 109 Figure |
Figure 1-3 is Figure 1-4 and should be on page 120 instead of the wrong |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 109 Figure 1-3 |
bottom cylindrical figure representing /home on "/dev/sdaq" should be "/dev/sda9" |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 109 figure 1-3 |
Figure 1-3 denotes Hard and Symbolic Links. This is correct, except the text |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 109 5th line |
4th line: |
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Printed | Page 110 Last 1/4 part of the page |
The example given states : |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 113 Example 3 |
command is missing a -R to recursively change the permissions |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 118 explanation ln command |
explaining the options : |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 119 2nd paragraph |
In my RedHat box 7.x, the command: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 119 Result of 'stat my*' |
The result of "myslink" part is entirely incorrect. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 120 Figure 1-4 |
Figure 1-4 is Figure 1-5 and should be on page 128 instead of the wrong |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 125 explanation of /tmp |
At least Redhat does not delete files under /tmp upon system boot. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 127 Last paragraph |
Figure 1-5 doesn't seem to be the right picture as described in the text. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 128 Figure 1-5 |
Figure 1-5 should depict a filesystem hierarchy graphically, but an info |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 171 the last line |
It is beyond the scope of LPIC Level 1, but nowadays the command passwd has an |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 174 The first paragraph |
In the previous pages, the boot process, minor system admin and now the |
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Printed | Page 177 In the footer |
"syslog must be ..." |
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Printed | Page 193 At the line number 45 |
-N "$now" shoud be -N "$prev_full", otherwise we end up storing only files modified |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 200 Exercise 1.3-4 ?1 it is written |
1. Expriment with redirecting the outout of ls /* which should be cp */ as follows: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 201 Exercise 1.3-7. Regular expressions |
Use a simple regular expression with grep to find sh and bash users in /etc/passwd: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 226 Question No 41. |
On Page 220, Q.41 ask the command to initiate a change to runlevel 5, the |
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Printed | Page 230 last entry of Table 1-30 |
{file_one, two, three} is incorrect. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 231 Table 1-31, Column "Syntax for bash", last line |
instead of: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 241 middle, at "Single-user mode" |
The book reads "Single-user mode can be entered with the single, or simply 1, |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 263 Right after the first paragraph |
The cat-command is used but is not clarified. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 282 In the middle of page |
"The build process for bash is stated by using the dot-slash pre-fix to |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 295 2nd paragraph, rpm |
original: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 296 Under title "Example 2" the 1st sentence. |
"...version can be done with the -U option." |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 317 middle |
The book reads "The bzImage file is ..., compressed using the bzip2 utility". But |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 318 Top |
The output of "ls -l /boot/vmlinuz*" doesn't look like an output of ls -l. It also |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 319 On the Exam - line 2 |
"modules-install" should be "modules_install" |
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Printed | Page 341 C-shells |
If bash is a Bourne-derived shell, so are zsh and ksh. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 348 Example 2-6 and example 2-7 |
In example 2-6, the "system-wide .bashrc" file should be "bashrc" in two places. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 354 First paragraph, second sentence |
The first paragraph, second sentence vaguely states "...child shell executes the |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 390 Figure 2-7 and the 2nd paragraph |
In figure 2-7, the network address expressed in binary should be: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 409 Last paragraph, first sentence |
The sentence is vague, stating "Most of these commands...", but I have only seen |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 413 Second paragraph, last sentence |
"dhcp.conf" should be "dhcpd.conf" |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 419 Footnote |
Should "for" be deleted to read "...automated PPP scripts..." |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 438 2nd line from bottom of WINS and browsing paragragh |
Example 2-18 may be Example 2-20 |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 447 Under title "On the attack", list of functions |
The filenames of the local configuration files should be /etc/hosts.deny and |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 454 SGID Workgroups paragraph, third sentence |
References the wrong Part and Topic to review SGID; should be page 104. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 476 Answer given for LPI102 Exam Practice Test Question 22 |
For the question "Which of the following programs will display DNS information for a |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 479 Question 38 |
Answer a and answer d of question 38 are identical, which is presumably not |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 488 Answer 48 |
2^8 is 8 -> 2^3 is 8. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 542 first line for "find command" |
Add pages 129 and 130 to the index listing for the find command. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 671 Item 4 |
/boot/grub/menu.lst is the configuration file for grub, not grub.conf. Many systems (not including Debian) give |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 673 Item 34 |
According to the rdev manpage the -s option hasn't been available since Linux 0.95. This answer, and the |
Anonymous |