diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml
index a5d0243565..a37c473525 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml
@@ -379,9 +379,19 @@ esac
 exit 0
     </programlisting>
 
-    <para>This script is called with <option>start</option>
-      at startup, and the <option>stop</option> at shutdown to allow
-      it to carry out its purpose.</para>
+    <para>The startup scripts of FreeBSD will look in
+      <filename>/usr/local/etc/rc.d</filename> for scripts that have an
+      <literal>.sh</literal> extension and are executable by root.  Those
+      scripts that are found are called with an option <option>start</option>
+      at startup, and <option>stop</option> at shutdown to allow them to carry
+      out their purpose.  So if you wanted the above sample script to be
+      picked up and run at the proper time during system startup, you should
+      save it to a file called <filename>FooBar.sh</filename> in
+      <filename>/usr/local/etc/rc.d</filename> and make sure it's
+      executable.  You can make a shell script executable with &man.chmod.1;
+      as shown below:</para>
+
+    <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>chmod 755 <replaceable>FooBar.sh</replaceable></userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Some services expect to be invoked by &man.inetd.8; when a
       connection is received on a suitable port.  This is common for