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@@ -2290,7 +2290,7 @@ handler execution.
 
 To help handle this situation, Majic Ansible Roles all come with a special way
 to invoke the handlers explicitly. Each role will include handlers as tasks,
-provided that a special variable (``handlers``) is passed in to playbook run. To
+provided that a special variable (``run_handlers``) is passed in to playbook run. To
 make the run shorter, the handlers in such a run are also tagged with
 ``handlers``. This doubling of environment variable + tagging stems from current
 limitations of Ansible (it is not possible to specify that certain task should
@@ -2299,9 +2299,10 @@ used).
 
 Handlers alone can be invoked specifically with command similar to::
 
-  ansible-playbook -t handlers -e handlers=true playbooks/site.yml
+  ansible-playbook -t handlers -e run_handlers=true playbooks/site.yml
 
-The ``handlers`` variable is treated as boolean, and by default it is not set.
+The ``run_handlers`` variable is treated as boolean, and by default it
+is not set.
 
 
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