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diff --git a/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8 b/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8
index cf7e30ef0d1..e384c9852ce 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/rc.subr.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: rc.subr.8,v 1.19 2012/08/04 15:30:48 ajacoutot Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: rc.subr.8,v 1.20 2012/08/06 06:44:15 ajacoutot Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2011 Robert Nagy, Antoine Jacoutot, Ingo Schwarze
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: August 4 2012 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: August 6 2012 $
.Dt RC.SUBR 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -176,11 +176,9 @@ call
.Fn rc_reload .
.El
.It Ic rc_check
-Send a
-.Dv NULL
-signal using
-.Xr pkill 1
-on the regular expression given in the
+Search for processes of the service with
+.Xr pgrep 1
+using the regular expression given in the
.Ar pexp
variable.
.It Ic rc_start
@@ -248,8 +246,10 @@ If no such login class exists then
will be used.
.It Va pexp
A regular expression to be passed to
+.Xr pgrep 1
+in order to find the desired process or to be passed to
.Xr pkill 1
-in order to find the desired process.
+to stop it.
By default this variable contains the
.Va daemon
and
@@ -276,6 +276,12 @@ in an
script to disable the reload action if the respective daemon
does not support reloading its configuration.
The same is possible, but almost never useful, for other actions.
+.It Va rc_usercheck
+Can be set to
+.Cm NO
+in an
+.Nm rc.d
+script, if the rc_check function needs root privileges.
.It Va rcexec
Holds the full
.Xr su 1