diff --git a/manpages/shorewall.xml b/manpages/shorewall.xml
index c60308585..0f307003b 100644
--- a/manpages/shorewall.xml
+++ b/manpages/shorewall.xml
@@ -811,8 +811,10 @@
           <para>The rules involving the the black list, ECN control rules, and
           traffic shaping are recreated to reflect any changes made to your
           configuration files. Existing connections are untouched. Under
-          Shorewall-perl, <command>refresh</command> is synonamous with
-          <command>restart</command>.</para>
+          Shorewall-perl, <command>refresh</command> preforms the same action
+          as <command>restart</command> (<command>refresh</command> requires
+          that Shorewall is already running and does not accept a directory
+          name as an argument).</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>