[CLUE-Cert] Error in the material and one of the questions

Lynn Danielson lynnd at techangle.com
Sun Mar 25 20:08:56 MST 2001


Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> One of the practice questions for chapter 1looks like it has
> an error: #13. It refers to /proc/sys/kernel/file-max, and
> I don't have that in either RH v6.1 or Debian (v?)...does anyone
> else see file-max in that dir? I instead see it in:
> /proc/sys/fs/. I would think that this would not be something
> distro-related, in any case.

Good catch!  It's the same on my SuSE distro.  It's possible
that the proc configuration has changed since this book was 
written, but I'm doubting it.
 
> When I searched groups.google.com for /proc and file-max,
> all hits I looked at mention only /proc/sys/fs...maybe this
> is just an oversight on the author's part.

And the technical editor for that matter.  
 
> I see they have an errata
> page set up for the books. Unfortunately, it's not very
> well organized and many of the submissions are spelling
> and grammar-related:
> 
> http://www.linuxcertification.com/resources/errata/

Thanks for pointing out the errata.  Too bad they're not
in a form where we can print them all out and stick them
in our books.

Lynn



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