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Unix System Administration Handbook, Second Edition
Corrections to Printing 5
In the following updates, changed words are italicized. Sometimes, changes are just described rather than written literally.
| Page 137 | Page 154 | Page 289 | Page 451 |
| Page 153 | Page 267 | Page 364 | Page 621 |
Page 137
The original Winchester disk was apparently named after the Winchester 30-30 rifle. It had two spindles, each of which stored 30 million bytes. If your copy of the book says that the disk was named after the Winchester Mystery House, well, we just made that up. Sorry.
Page 153
An HP-UX select code is a hardwre slot identifier and does not necessarily correspond to a major device number, as is stated in the text.
Page 154
The text is not incorrect, but it really should mention that the nt parameter is the number of tracks per cylinder (i.e. the number of surfaces) NOT the number of tracks per surface (i.e. the number of cylinders).
Page 267
BSD/OS versions 2.0 and up support gated, but prior versions did not.
Page 289
Bill Metcalfe should be Bob Metcalfe. Sorry, Bob.
Page 364
"Heterogenous" should be "heterogeneous".
Page 451
The comments regarding Perl's use of system are not accurate; much depends on how the programmer uses Perl.
Page 621
The block sizes reported by du, df, and quot on HP-UX should be 512 for du and df, and 1024 for quot.
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