diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index a1897c26a..df77b8f85 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>2006-10-29</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags to some commands in Util-Linux and
+          Vim. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-14.patch.  Drop the
           &quot;spellfile&quot; fix as it was applied upstream as patch
diff --git a/chapter06/util-linux.xml b/chapter06/util-linux.xml
index d951564d5..16b2da09c 100644
--- a/chapter06/util-linux.xml
+++ b/chapter06/util-linux.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 
 <screen><userinput>sed -i 's@etc/adjtime@var/lib/hwclock/adjtime@g' \
     hwclock/hwclock.c
-mkdir -p /var/lib/hwclock</userinput></screen>
+mkdir -pv /var/lib/hwclock</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/vim.xml b/chapter06/vim.xml
index ec2993575..9c24a6068 100644
--- a/chapter06/vim.xml
+++ b/chapter06/vim.xml
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@
     <!-- Removal is used instead of conversion in order for the user to be able to
     painlessly revert his UTF-8 locale choice. -->
 
-<screen><userinput>rm -f /usr/share/vim/vim70/tutor/tutor.{gr,pl,ru,sk}
-rm -f /usr/share/vim/vim70/tutor/tutor.??.*</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>rm -fv /usr/share/vim/vim70/tutor/tutor.{gr,pl,ru,sk}
+rm -fv /usr/share/vim/vim70/tutor/tutor.??.*</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Many users are used to using <command>vi</command> instead of
     <command>vim</command>. To allow execution of <command>vim</command>