From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:45:02 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: dmesg: add note about -F format to the man page
X-Git-Tag: v2.32-rc1~243
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=da964963220dc0b60a0725095fe7c3072a083927;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

dmesg: add note about -F format to the man page

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/dmesg.1 b/sys-utils/dmesg.1
index 81b9726a66..b87b2301b5 100644
--- a/sys-utils/dmesg.1
+++ b/sys-utils/dmesg.1
@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@ Display the local time and the delta in human-readable format.  Be aware that
 conversion to the local time could be inaccurate (see \fB\-T\fR for more
 details).
 .IP "\fB\-F\fR, \fB\-\-file \fIfile\fR"
-Read the messages from the given
+Read the syslog messages from the given
 .IR file .
+Note that \fB\-F\fR does not support messages in kmsg format. The old syslog format is supported only.
 .IP "\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-facility \fIlist\fR"
 Restrict output to the given (comma-separated)
 .I list