From: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:44:08 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: dmesg: link together with syslog(2) manual page
X-Git-Tag: v2.33-rc1~281
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1c199a6e1571ea8f0630e25d05dcdc678f933caf;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

dmesg: link together with syslog(2) manual page

The dmesg may require capabilities(7) when /proc/sys/kernel/dmesg_restrict
has none zero value.  This is explained in detail in syslog(2) manual page.

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/dmesg.1 b/sys-utils/dmesg.1
index 1dc9994eca..2b61c3739a 100644
--- a/sys-utils/dmesg.1
+++ b/sys-utils/dmesg.1
@@ -228,7 +228,13 @@ The text of the message with the warning log priority.
 .TP
 .B segfault
 The text of the message that inform about segmentation fault.
-
+.SH EXIT STATUS
+.B dmesg
+can fail reporting permission denied error.  This is usually caused by
+.B dmesg_restrict
+kernel setting, please see
+.BR syslog (2)
+for more details.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR terminal-colors.d (5),
 .BR syslogd (8)