diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml
index 9107948592..2f4d8cc78b 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip/chapter.sgml
@@ -2158,8 +2158,9 @@ ppp_profile="name_of_service_provider"</programlisting>
 
 	<programlisting>net.graph.nonstandard_pppoe=1</programlisting>
 
-      <para>or can be done for immediate effect with the command
-	<command>sysctl net.graph.nonstandard_pppoe=1</command>.</para>
+      <para>or can be done immediately with the command:</para>
+
+      <programlisting>&prompt.root; sysctl net.graph.nonstandard_pppoe=1</programlisting>
 
       <para>Unfortunately, because this is a system-wide setting, it is
 	not possible to talk to a normal PPPoE client or server and a