-.\" $OpenBSD: rc.8,v 1.39 2014/07/14 09:21:04 ajacoutot Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: rc.8,v 1.40 2014/07/22 07:38:52 ajacoutot Exp $
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 14 2014 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 22 2014 $
.Dt RC 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
to start daemons that must be run before the security level changes.
Following this,
.Nm rc
-then sets the security level to '1'.
+then sets the security level to '1' if it wasn't set already by
+.Nm rc.securelevel .
See
.Xr securelevel 7
for the effects of setting the security level.