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-.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), Fri Apr  2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
+.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de),
+.\"         Fri Apr  2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993
+.\" and Copyright (C) 2007 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 .\"
 .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
 .\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
@@ -21,13 +23,25 @@
 .\" USA.
 .\"
 .\" 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
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-This chapter describes commands which either can be or are only used by
-the superuser, like daemons and hardware-related commands.
+Section 8 of the manual describes commands
+which either can be or are only used by the superuser,
+like system-administration commands, daemons,
+and hardware-related commands.
+
+As with the commands in described 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 for the author(s) and copyright
+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!