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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:35:48 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
-.TH INTRO 8 1993-07-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.\" 2007-10-23 mtk: minor rewrites, and added paragraph on exit status
+.\"
+.TH INTRO 8 2007-10-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
-intro \- Introduction to administration and privileged commands
+intro \- introduction to administration and privileged commands
.SH DESCRIPTION
-This chapter describes commands which either can be or are only used by
-the superuser, like daemons and hardware related commands.
-.SS Authors and Copyright Conditions
-Look at the header of the manual page for the author(s) and copyright
+Section 8 of the manual describes commands
+which either can be or are used only by the superuser,
+like system-administration commands, daemons,
+and hardware-related commands.
+.PP
+As with the commands described in Section 1, the commands described
+in this section terminate with an exit status that indicates
+whether the command succeeded or failed.
+See
+.BR intro (1)
+for more information.
+.SH NOTES
+.SS Authors and copyright conditions
+Look at the header of the manual page source for the author(s) and copyright
conditions.
Note that these can be different from page to page!