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 will cause the server to perform a restart. `pumactl` is a simple CLI frontend to the control/status app described above.
 
-Allowed commands: status, restart, halt, stop
+Allowed commands: `status`, `restart`, `halt`, `stop`
 
 ## Managing multiple Pumas / init.d / upstart scripts