diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
index eb842f5e32..7310933f65 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
@@ -3339,7 +3339,7 @@ kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-fast</screen>
 	    <varname>kern.timecounter.hardware</varname>
 	    &man.sysctl.3;.</para>
 
-	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl -w kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254</userinput>
+	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254</userinput>
 kern.timecounter.hardware: TSC -&gt; i8254</screen>
 
 	  <para>Your computer should now start keeping more accurate
@@ -5046,7 +5046,7 @@ C:\="DOS"</programlisting>
 	    <varname>vfs.usermount</varname> to
 	    <literal>1</literal>.</para>
 
-	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl -w vfs.usermount=1</userinput></screen>
+	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl vfs.usermount=1</userinput></screen>
 
 	  <para>To make this persist across reboots, add the line
 	    <literal><varname>vfs.usermount</varname>=1</literal> to
@@ -7273,7 +7273,7 @@ Key F15        A        A        Menu Workplace Nop</programlisting>
 	    like this, where <literal>300</literal> is the limit in
 	    packets per second:</para>
 
-	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl -w net.inet.icmp.icmplim=300</userinput></screen>
+	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl net.inet.icmp.icmplim=300</userinput></screen>
 
 	  <para>If you do not want to see messages about this in your
 	    log files, but you still want the kernel to do response
@@ -7281,7 +7281,7 @@ Key F15        A        A        Menu Workplace Nop</programlisting>
 	    <varname>net.inet.icmp.icmplim_output</varname> sysctl
 	    variable to disable the output like this:</para>
 
-	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl -w net.inet.icmp.icmplim_output=0</userinput></screen>
+	  <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>sysctl net.inet.icmp.icmplim_output=0</userinput></screen>
 
 	  <para>Finally, if you want to disable response limiting, you
 	    can set the <varname>net.inet.icmp.icmplim</varname> sysctl