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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".

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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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Page 2
third line from bottom

"and you can't make them them do what you want"
should be:
"and you can't make them do what you want"

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 5
1st paragraph of Discussion section

"These commands perform keyword searches in the Description sections"
should be:
"These commands perform keyword searches in the NAME sections"

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 53
description of "GNU coreutils", 2nd sentence

"See http://www.gnu.org/software/cororeutils/ for a complete listing"
should be:
"See http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ for a complete listing"

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 54
Last sentence of last paragraph of "Discussion"

Reads: "And it's a also an important safety measure..."
Should be: "And it's also an important safety measure..."

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 54
the first paragraph of the Discussion

"The -v option for grep turns on verbosity. -e ^ means "exclude the following
directory.""

NOW READS:
"The -v option for grep means "exclude the following," or "display things that do not
match the following expressions." -e specifies the pattern to search for. The caret,
^, means look for the pattern at the beginning of the lines.

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2005
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Page 59

Near bottom of page, under "Solution", Use lspci:
Reads:
# /sbin/lscpi
# /sbin/lspci -v
# /sbin/lspci -vv
Should be:
# /sbin/lspci
# /sbin/lspci -v
# /sbin/lspci -vv

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 73
First paragraph

"regardless of what .joerc says."
Should be:
"regardless of what .joercprefs says.

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 113
Last example of "Solution" in Recipe 8.10

# passwd -S option
should be:
# passwd -s aborg
(Note that the -s should be lowercase)

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 160
1st paragraph of Discussion section, 2nd sentence

"available from http://e2fprogs.sourceforge.net"
should be:
"available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net"

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 197
4th example

There is a missing space before filename.wav:

Orig:
$ mpg123 -b 10000 -s filename.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c 2 -filname.wav

Should be:
$mpg123 -b 10000 -s filename.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c 2 - filename.wav

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 221
4th line from top

$ convert -depth 14 ...
should be:
$ convert -colors 14 ...

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 229
3rd Paragraph

A entire
should be
An entire

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 235
3rd Paragraph

Missing space makes command ambiguous:
//windbag/lan_share/mnt/samba
should be
//windbag/lan_share /mnt/samba

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 239
4th Paragraph

inde-pent
should be
independent

AND

productes
should be
products

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 240
1st Paragraph

defintions
should be
definitions

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 256
3rd Paragraph under Hardware section

GPU
should be
CPU

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 261
"See Also" section, 1st bullet item

http://www.xfree86.org/resources.html
should be:
http://www.xfree86.org/sos/resources.html

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 297
Near top of page, "mondoarchive" command line

# mondoarchive -OVmF -5 -S /tmp/scratch -T /tmp/mondo -E "/home /shared /var/www"
-i -d /tmp/iso

should be:

# mondoarchive -OVmF -5 -S /tmp/scratch -T /tmp/mondo -E "/home /shared /var/www"
-i -d /tmp/iso -s 4200m

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 297
"Discussion" section, after last command line option ("-d")

Append the line:

-s The size of the backup media (or, if an .iso is being created, the maximum size
of the .iso file). The size we specified in the solution above, 4200 MB, should
allow the .iso to fit easily onto a standard 4.7 GB DVD.

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 367
code example at the top of the page:

reads
mtpd_banner = ...
should be
smtpd_banner = ...

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014
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Page 447
4th Paragraph

Common Internet System/Server Message Block
should be
Common Internet File System/Server Message Block

 Anonymous    Mar 28, 2014