diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Tips-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Tips-HOWTO.sgml
index f759d321..2e9f4f5e 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Tips-HOWTO.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Tips-HOWTO.sgml
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ I could see this was in /dev/hdb5
         go through the /bin, /sbin/, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and
         /usr/lib (and a few of the other usual suspects and
         make liberal use of the 'chattr +i command'.  Also add that
-        to the the kernel files in root.  Now 'mkdir /etc/.dist/'
+        to the kernel files in root.  Now 'mkdir /etc/.dist/'
         copy everything from /etc/ on down (I do this in two steps
         using /tmp/etcdist.tar to avoid recursion) into that directory.
         (Optionally you can just create /etc/.dist.tar.gz) -- and