diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
index ef83206bbc..8f85df64da 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ pg_ctl start -l logfile
Different systems have different conventions for starting up daemons
at boot time. Many systems have a file
/etc/rc.local or
- /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Others use
+ /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Others use init.d or
rc.d> directories. Whatever you do, the server must be
run by the PostgreSQL user account
and not by root or any other user. Therefore you
@@ -329,7 +329,8 @@ fi
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l logfile -D /usr/local/pgsql/data
- to /etc/rc.d/rc.local or look at the file
+ to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
+ or /etc/rc.local or look at the file
contrib/start-scripts/linux in the
PostgreSQL source distribution.