diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 41d01326e..90323b387 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>2007-10-29</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Removed obsolete note from Creating Symlinks section
+          about continuation lines in udev rules.  Changed dailout group
+          to uucp for udev rule compatability.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to the latest upstream patches for
           Vim.</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/createfiles.xml b/chapter06/createfiles.xml
index 249306d97..4913d7d91 100644
--- a/chapter06/createfiles.xml
+++ b/chapter06/createfiles.xml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ daemon:x:6:
 floppy:x:7:
 disk:x:8:
 lp:x:9:
-dialout:x:10:
+uucp:x:10:
 audio:x:11:
 video:x:12:
 utmp:x:13:
diff --git a/chapter07/symlinks.xml b/chapter07/symlinks.xml
index 3abd34932..4b0aafeed 100644
--- a/chapter07/symlinks.xml
+++ b/chapter07/symlinks.xml
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
 
     <para>Then write rules that create the symlinks, e.g.:</para>
 
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/udev/rules.d/83-duplicate_devs.rules &lt;&lt; EOF
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/udev/rules.d/83-duplicate_devs.rules &lt;&lt; "EOF"
 <literal>
 # Persistent symlinks for webcam and tuner
 KERNEL=="video*", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1910", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0d81", \
@@ -138,18 +138,6 @@ KERNEL=="video*", ATTRS{device}=="0x036f", ATTRS{vendor}=="0x109e", \
 </literal>
 EOF</userinput></screen>
 
-    <note>
-      <para>Be aware that Udev does not recognize the backslash for line
-      continuation.  This example works properly because both the backslash
-      and newline are ignored by the shell.  This makes the shell send each
-      rule to cat on only one line.  (The shell ignores this sequence because
-      the EOF string used in the here-document redirection is not enclosed in
-      either double or single quotes.  For more details, see the bash(1)
-      manpage, and search it for "Here Documents".)</para>
-      <para>If modifying Udev rules with an editor, be sure to leave each
-      rule on one physical line.</para>
-    </note>
-
     <para>The result is that <filename>/dev/video0</filename> and
     <filename>/dev/video1</filename> devices still refer randomly to the tuner
     and the web camera (and thus should never be used directly), but there are