Errata
Document Actions
Even though countless hours have gone into checking all the facts and proof-reading the final version before the printing of the book, the stereotypical last bugs always remain undiscovered. In the following is a list of such errata. The list is sorted by chapter and page number. Click on the short description to see the details.
If you find an error in the book not listed here, please do not hesitate to let me know!
Please note that I only list errors that affect the contents. Simple spelling errors or the like are not worth entries in this database. I still appreciate if you told me about them. However, please do not hold it against me if I do not reply to thank you.
To stay up-to-date on changes to the Debian system, you may want to consider subscribring to the errata 
feed, or the feed which aggregates the errata and the changes.
Chapter 1. Introduction
| p. 24 | Changes are not expected in the stable release | 2005-07-21 |
Chapter 2. The Debian Project
| p. 32 | Confusing year: rex was released in December 1996 | 2005-07-12 |
| p. 33 | QPL situation not correctly described | 2005-12-13 |
| p. 33 | Elections had been completed by the time of release | 2005-06-24 |
| p. 40 | Qmail is not Open Source | 2005-12-13 |
| p. 40 | Free software is not a subset of Open Source | 2005-12-13 |
| p. 49 | Malformed reference to mailing list chapter | 2005-08-01 |
| p. 52 | The #debian IRC channel is a users' forum, not a developer forum | 2005-06-25 |
| p. 59 | Wrong URL to package tracking system | 2005-08-03 |
Chapter 3. Installing Debian the right way
| p. 71 | PPP is point-to-point, not peer-to-peer | 2005-11-26 |
| p. 101 | .Xsession tried if .xsession does not exist | 2005-07-25 |
Chapter 4. Debian releases and archives
| p. 105 | Missing labels in archive structure graph | 2005-11-17 |
| p. 105 | Missing folder level in figure | 2006-02-16 |
| p. 107 | Source package index is named Sources, not Packages | 2005-12-05 |
| p. 110 | Should be overlooks, not oversees | 2005-07-18 |
Chapter 5. The Debian package management system
Chapter 6. Debian system administration
| p. 278 | Code snippet involuntarily repeated | 2005-12-03 |
| p. 281 | Command should be adduser, not aduser | 2005-07-25 |
| p. 299 | Faulty way of spawning sshd in single-user mode | 2006-10-22 |
| p. 306 | Incomplete paragraph about sysklogd daily cron file | 2005-07-27 |
| p. 307 | Wrong section numbering | 2005-06-21 |
| p. 332 | Mappings are applied iteratively | 2005-07-26 |
| p. 335 | Missing braces in udev configuration | 2005-07-26 |
Chapter 7. Security of the Debian system
| p. 373 | Anthony signed the key, not James | 2005-08-03 |
Chapter 8. Advanced concepts
| p. 403 | Option should be --upgradeable, not --upgraded | 2005-12-03 |
| p. 408 | MIRROR variable incomplete | 2006-07-30 |
| p. 413 | grub-update should be update-grub | 2006-01-26 |
| p. 417 | Wrong mount options for /dev/hda2 | 2005-12-09 |
| p. 427 | Wrong chapter reference | 2005-12-09 |
Chapter 9. Creating Debian packages
| p. 469 | Incomplete sentence about use of dh_clean during installation | 2005-08-08 |
| p. 471 | Command is dh_install, not dg_install | 2005-12-05 |
| p. 479 | Should be *-clean, not *-free | 2005-07-18 |
| p. 490 | Two small errors in preinst file | 2006-01-30 |
Chapter 10. Documentation and resources
| p. 519 | dwarfs-debian-guide package out of date and removed | 2005-06-21 |
| p. 519 | Missing tilde in survey URL | 2005-06-21 |
| p. 540 | Standard mode allows to choose from a set of tags | 2006-01-31 |
Chapter A. Debian flavours and other Debian-based operating systems
| p. 564 | Gnoppix is based on Ubuntu, not vice versa | 2005-06-24 |
Chapter C. Miscellaneous
| p. 577 | Partition types are mixed up | 2005-11-10 |
Website back online
Faulty way of spawning sshd in single-user mode
