Hi Whit, Authors are usually very glad to hear this kind of feedback and send corrections to the publisher (not that the publisher will necessarily respond quickly).
Trust me when I say that some (not all, not naming names :p) publishers 1) do not provide any assistance with technical reviews nor style in books and 2) request rediculously short delivery deadlines for manuscripts. So while it might seem like this was super sloppy on the part of the author, more likely it was a very short schedule for a manuscript that did not allow the authors time to properly edit and revise their work and most likely the author just did not have time to catch the error. Might be better to send this feedback directly to the authors :), I know I am always glad to hear feedback, positive or negative, from readers of anything I publish. - Max On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Whit Blauvelt<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:47:03PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > >> define host { >> use generic-server >> name ubuntu >> alias ubuntu (scripts) >> address 192.168.1.136 >> contact_groups linux-admins >> } > > Ah, that has to be "host_name" not "name". The book's example on p. 53 had > that wrong. > > If the book is going to publish pseudo-code, they really shouldn't pretend > to provide working examples. Since this is a "print on demand" publisher, > anyone think they're going to fix the book anytime soon? Conceptually a very > good book, they just didn't execute - or check that their code could. > > Whit > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! > Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. > Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
