diff --git a/src/includes/rc-misc.h b/src/includes/rc-misc.h
index f2449cd76..de73c5c12 100644
--- a/src/includes/rc-misc.h
+++ b/src/includes/rc-misc.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 
 char *rc_conf_value(const char *var);
 bool rc_conf_yesno(const char *var);
+char *get_systype(void);
 void env_filter(void);
 void env_config(void);
 int signal_setup(int sig, void (*handler)(int));
@@ -60,10 +61,6 @@ int is_writable(const char *);
 #define service_stop(service)  exec_service(service, "stop");
 
 int parse_mode(mode_t *, char *);
-const char *detect_prefix(void);
-const char *get_systype(void);
-const char *detect_container(void);
-const char *detect_vm(void);
 
 /* Handy function so we can wrap einfo around our deptree */
 RC_DEPTREE *_rc_deptree_load (int, int *);
diff --git a/src/rc/_usage.c b/src/rc/_usage.c
index 9fc3e5d83..40d814222 100644
--- a/src/rc/_usage.c
+++ b/src/rc/_usage.c
@@ -44,12 +44,9 @@ void set_quiet_options(void)
 
 _noreturn void show_version(void)
 {
-	const char *systype = NULL;
+	char *systype = get_systype();
 
 	printf("%s (OpenRC", applet);
-	systype = detect_container();
-	if (!systype)
-		systype = detect_vm();
 	if (systype)
 		printf(" [%s]", systype);
 	printf(") %s", VERSION);
diff --git a/src/rc/rc-misc.c b/src/rc/rc-misc.c
index 2c6c3883c..e0e6e2c79 100644
--- a/src/rc/rc-misc.c
+++ b/src/rc/rc-misc.c
@@ -50,6 +50,172 @@ rc_conf_yesno(const char *setting)
 	return rc_yesno(rc_conf_value (setting));
 }
 
+/*
+ * static bool is_container(const char *systype)
+ * {
+	 * FreeBSD: RC_SYS_JAIL
+	 * Linux: RC_SYS_UML RC_SYS_VSERVER RC_SYS_OPENVZ RC_SYS_LXC
+	 * RC_SYS_RKT RC_SYS_SYSTEMD_NSPAWN RC_SYS_DOCKER
+ * }
+ *
+ * static bool is_vm(const char *systype)
+ * {
+	 * NetBSD: RC_SYS_XEN0 RC_SYS_XENU
+	 * Linux: RC_SYS_XEN0 RC_SYS_XENU
+ * }
+ */
+
+static bool file_regex(const char *file, const char *regex)
+{
+	FILE *fp;
+	char *line = NULL;
+	size_t len = 0;
+	regex_t re;
+	bool retval = true;
+	int result;
+
+	if (!(fp = fopen(file, "r")))
+		return false;
+
+	if ((result = regcomp(&re, regex, REG_EXTENDED | REG_NOSUB)) != 0) {
+		fclose(fp);
+		line = xmalloc(sizeof(char) * BUFSIZ);
+		regerror(result, &re, line, BUFSIZ);
+		fprintf(stderr, "file_regex: %s", line);
+		free(line);
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	while ((rc_getline(&line, &len, fp))) {
+		char *str = line;
+		/* some /proc files have \0 separated content so we have to
+		   loop through the 'line' */
+		do {
+			if (regexec(&re, str, 0, NULL, 0) == 0)
+				goto found;
+			str += strlen(str) + 1;
+			/* len is the size of allocated buffer and we don't
+			   want call regexec BUFSIZE times. find next str */
+			while (str < line + len && *str == '\0')
+				str++;
+		} while (str < line + len);
+	}
+	retval = false;
+found:
+	fclose(fp);
+	free(line);
+	regfree(&re);
+
+	return retval;
+}
+
+char *get_systype(void)
+{
+	char *systype = rc_conf_value("rc_sys");
+	char *s;
+
+	if (systype) {
+		if (*systype == '\0') {
+			free(systype);
+			return NULL;
+		}
+		s = systype;
+		/* Convert to uppercase */
+		while (s && *s) {
+			if (islower((unsigned char) *s))
+				*s = toupper((unsigned char) *s);
+			s++;
+		}
+		if (strcmp(systype,RC_SYS_PREFIX) == 0)
+			return systype;
+
+#ifdef __FreeBSD__
+		if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_JAIL) == 0)
+			return systype;
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __linux__
+		if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_UML) == 0)
+			return systype;
+		else if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_VSERVER) == 0)
+			return systype;
+		else if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_OPENVZ) == 0)
+			return systype;
+		else if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_LXC) == 0)
+			return systype;
+		else if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_RKT) == 0)
+			return systype;
+		else if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_SYSTEMD_NSPAWN) == 0)
+			return systype;
+		else if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_DOCKER) == 0)
+			return systype;
+		else if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_XEN0) == 0)
+			return systype;
+		else if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_XENU) == 0)
+			return systype;
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __NetBSD__
+		if(strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_XEN0) == 0)
+			return systype;
+		else if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_XENU) == 0)
+			return systype;
+#endif
+	}
+
+	free(systype);
+	systype = NULL;
+
+#ifdef PREFIX
+	systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_PREFIX);
+	return systype;
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __FreeBSD__
+	int jailed = 0;
+	size_t len = sizeof(jailed);
+
+	if (sysctlbyname("security.jail.jailed", &jailed, &len, NULL, 0) == 0)
+		if (jailed == 1)
+			systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_JAIL);
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __linux__
+	if (file_regex("/proc/cpuinfo", "UML"))
+		systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_UML);
+	else if (file_regex("/proc/self/status",
+		"(s_context|VxID):[[:space:]]*[1-9]"))
+		systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_VSERVER);
+	else if (exists("/proc/vz/veinfo") && !exists("/proc/vz/version"))
+		systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_OPENVZ);
+	else if (file_regex("/proc/self/status",
+		"envID:[[:space:]]*[1-9]"))
+		systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_OPENVZ); /* old test */
+	else if (file_regex("/proc/1/environ", "container=lxc"))
+		systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_LXC);
+	else if (file_regex("/proc/1/environ", "container=rkt"))
+		systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_RKT);
+	else if (file_regex("/proc/1/environ", "container=systemd-nspawn"))
+		systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_SYSTEMD_NSPAWN);
+	else if (file_regex("/proc/1/environ", "container=docker"))
+		systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_DOCKER);
+	else if (exists("/proc/xen")) {
+		if (file_regex("/proc/xen/capabilities", "control_d"))
+			systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_XEN0);
+		systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_XENU);
+	}
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __NetBSD__
+	if (exists("/kern/xen/privcmd"))
+		systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_XEN0);
+	else if (exists("/kern/xen"))
+		systype = xstrdup(RC_SYS_XENU);
+#endif
+
+	return systype;
+}
+
 static const char *const env_whitelist[] = {
 	"EERROR_QUIET", "EINFO_QUIET",
 	"IN_BACKGROUND", "IN_HOTPLUG",
@@ -126,7 +292,7 @@ env_config(void)
 	char *np;
 	char *npp;
 	char *tok;
-	const char *sys = NULL;
+	char *sys = get_systype();
 	char buffer[PATH_MAX];
 
 	/* Ensure our PATH is prefixed with the system locations first
@@ -177,12 +343,10 @@ env_config(void)
 	} else
 		setenv("RC_DEFAULTLEVEL", RC_LEVEL_DEFAULT, 1);
 
-	sys = detect_container();
-	if (!sys)
-		sys = detect_vm();
-
-	if (sys)
+	if (sys) {
 		setenv("RC_SYS", sys, 1);
+		free(sys);
+	}
 
 #ifdef PREFIX
 	setenv("RC_PREFIX", RC_PREFIX, 1);
@@ -338,163 +502,6 @@ is_writable(const char *path)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static bool file_regex(const char *file, const char *regex)
-{
-	FILE *fp;
-	char *line = NULL;
-	size_t len = 0;
-	regex_t re;
-	bool retval = true;
-	int result;
-
-	if (!(fp = fopen(file, "r")))
-		return false;
-
-	if ((result = regcomp(&re, regex, REG_EXTENDED | REG_NOSUB)) != 0) {
-		fclose(fp);
-		line = xmalloc(sizeof(char) * BUFSIZ);
-		regerror(result, &re, line, BUFSIZ);
-		fprintf(stderr, "file_regex: %s", line);
-		free(line);
-		return false;
-	}
-
-	while ((rc_getline(&line, &len, fp))) {
-		char *str = line;
-		/* some /proc files have \0 separated content so we have to
-		   loop through the 'line' */
-		do {
-			if (regexec(&re, str, 0, NULL, 0) == 0)
-				goto found;
-			str += strlen(str) + 1;
-			/* len is the size of allocated buffer and we don't
-			   want call regexec BUFSIZE times. find next str */
-			while (str < line + len && *str == '\0')
-				str++;
-		} while (str < line + len);
-	}
-	retval = false;
-found:
-	fclose(fp);
-	free(line);
-	regfree(&re);
-
-	return retval;
-}
-
-const char *detect_prefix(void)
-{
-#ifdef PREFIX
-	return RC_SYS_PREFIX;
-#else
-	return NULL;
-#endif
-}
-
-const char *get_systype(void)
-{
-	char *systype = rc_conf_value("rc_sys");
-	if (systype) {
-		char *s = systype;
-		/* Convert to uppercase */
-		while (s && *s) {
-			if (islower((unsigned char) *s))
-				*s = toupper((unsigned char) *s);
-			s++;
-		}
-	}
-	return systype;
-}
-
-const char *detect_container(void)
-{
-	const char *systype = get_systype();
-
-#ifdef __FreeBSD__
-	if (systype && strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_JAIL) == 0)
-		return RC_SYS_JAIL;
-	int jailed = 0;
-	size_t len = sizeof(jailed);
-
-	if (sysctlbyname("security.jail.jailed", &jailed, &len, NULL, 0) == 0)
-		if (jailed == 1)
-			return RC_SYS_JAIL;
-#endif
-
-#ifdef __linux__
-	if (systype) {
-		if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_UML) == 0)
-			return RC_SYS_UML;
-		if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_VSERVER) == 0)
-			return RC_SYS_VSERVER;
-		if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_OPENVZ) == 0)
-			return RC_SYS_OPENVZ;
-		if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_LXC) == 0)
-			return RC_SYS_LXC;
-		if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_RKT) == 0)
-				return RC_SYS_RKT;
-		if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_SYSTEMD_NSPAWN) == 0)
-				return RC_SYS_SYSTEMD_NSPAWN;
-		if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_DOCKER) == 0)
-				return RC_SYS_DOCKER;
-	}
-	if (file_regex("/proc/cpuinfo", "UML"))
-		return RC_SYS_UML;
-	else if (file_regex("/proc/self/status",
-		"(s_context|VxID):[[:space:]]*[1-9]"))
-		return RC_SYS_VSERVER;
-	else if (exists("/proc/vz/veinfo") && !exists("/proc/vz/version"))
-		return RC_SYS_OPENVZ;
-	else if (file_regex("/proc/self/status",
-		"envID:[[:space:]]*[1-9]"))
-		return RC_SYS_OPENVZ; /* old test */
-	else if (file_regex("/proc/1/environ", "container=lxc"))
-		return RC_SYS_LXC;
-	else if (file_regex("/proc/1/environ", "container=rkt"))
-		return RC_SYS_RKT;
-	else if (file_regex("/proc/1/environ", "container=systemd-nspawn"))
-		return RC_SYS_SYSTEMD_NSPAWN;
-	else if (file_regex("/proc/1/environ", "container=docker"))
-		return RC_SYS_DOCKER;
-#endif
-
-	return NULL;
-}
-
-const char *detect_vm(void)
-{
-	const char *systype = get_systype();
-
-#ifdef __NetBSD__
-	if (systype) {
-		if(strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_XEN0) == 0)
-				return RC_SYS_XEN0;
-		if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_XENU) == 0)
-			return RC_SYS_XENU;
-	}
-	if (exists("/kern/xen/privcmd"))
-		return RC_SYS_XEN0;
-	if (exists("/kern/xen"))
-		return RC_SYS_XENU;
-#endif
-
-#ifdef __linux__
-	if (systype) {
-		if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_XEN0) == 0)
-			return RC_SYS_XEN0;
-		if (strcmp(systype, RC_SYS_XENU) == 0)
-			return RC_SYS_XENU;
-	}
-	if (exists("/proc/xen")) {
-		if (file_regex("/proc/xen/capabilities", "control_d"))
-			return RC_SYS_XEN0;
-		return RC_SYS_XENU;
-	}
-#endif
-
-	return NULL;
-}
-
 RC_DEPTREE * _rc_deptree_load(int force, int *regen)
 {
 	int fd;
diff --git a/src/rc/rc.c b/src/rc/rc.c
index 87c4913fb..0a970b4e8 100644
--- a/src/rc/rc.c
+++ b/src/rc/rc.c
@@ -281,12 +281,8 @@ open_shell(void)
 	struct passwd *pw;
 
 #ifdef __linux__
-	const char *sys = NULL;
+	char *sys = get_systype();
 	
-	sys = detect_container();
-	if (!sys)
-		sys = detect_vm();
-
 	/* VSERVER and OPENVZ systems cannot really drop to shells */
 	if (sys &&
 	    (strcmp(sys, "VSERVER") == 0 || strcmp(sys, "OPENVZ") == 0))
@@ -470,7 +466,7 @@ static void
 do_sysinit()
 {
 	struct utsname uts;
-	const char *sys;
+	char *sys = get_systype();
 
 	/* exec init-early.sh if it exists
 	 * This should just setup the console to use the correct
@@ -491,9 +487,6 @@ do_sysinit()
 	    uts.machine);
 #endif
 
-	sys = detect_container();
-	if (!sys)
-		sys = detect_vm();
 	if (sys)
 		printf(" [%s]", sys);
 
@@ -509,9 +502,7 @@ do_sysinit()
 
 	/* init may have mounted /proc so we can now detect or real
 	 * sys */
-	sys = detect_container();
-	if (!sys)
-		sys = detect_vm();
+	sys = get_systype();
 	if (sys)
 		setenv("RC_SYS", sys, 1);
 }
@@ -832,9 +823,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 			eerrorx("%s: %s", applet, strerror(errno));
 			/* NOTREACHED */
 		case 'S':
-			systype = detect_container();
-			if (!systype)
-				systype = detect_vm();
+			systype = get_systype();
 			if (systype)
 				printf("%s\n", systype);
 			exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);