Update manual pages

Warn the user about the use of colors so that they aren't misunderstood.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien GODARD <sysstat@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/man/cifsiostat.in b/man/cifsiostat.in
index dbc2382125e56389a3a2c2d61078869ebfae1284..42dca4761979901916ba896718386d28de01fc0c 100644 (file)
--- a/man/cifsiostat.in
+++ b/man/cifsiostat.in
@@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ or
 .IR auto
 (the latter is the default).
 
+Please note that the color (being red, yellow, or some other color) used to display a value
+is not indicative of any kind of issue simply because of the color. It only indicates different
+ranges of values.
+
 .IP S_COLORS_SGR
 Specify the colors and other attributes used to display statistics on the terminal.
 Its value is a colon-separated list of capabilities that defaults to

diff --git a/man/iostat.in b/man/iostat.in
index a589b7d7bbe322b0b563a8e7d3f3243255462206..9f08ed0bd36d2420bdc4976cfdf159eba09b2fcd 100644 (file)
--- a/man/iostat.in
+++ b/man/iostat.in
@@ -351,13 +351,17 @@ of the default 1K blocks.
 
 .IP S_COLORS
 When this variable is set, display statistics in color on the terminal.
-Possible values for this variable are 
+Possible values for this variable are
 .IR never ,
 .IR always
 or
 .IR auto
 (the latter is the default).
 
+Please note that the color (being red, yellow, or some other color) used to display a value
+is not indicative of any kind of issue simply because of the color. It only indicates different
+ranges of values.
+
 .IP S_COLORS_SGR
 Specify the colors and other attributes used to display statistics on the terminal.
 Its value is a colon-separated list of capabilities that defaults to

diff --git a/man/mpstat.1 b/man/mpstat.1
index ed65b2990a97c1e705fc7bbaa22a7e338e7db8ef..9c6ce351604750ce4896730182295ef5e8111ec0 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mpstat.1
+++ b/man/mpstat.1
@@ -193,6 +193,10 @@ or
 .IR auto
 (the latter is the default).
 
+Please note that the color (being red, yellow, or some other color) used to display a value
+is not indicative of any kind of issue simply because of the color. It only indicates different
+ranges of values.
+
 .IP S_COLORS_SGR
 Specify the colors and other attributes used to display statistics on the terminal.
 Its value is a colon-separated list of capabilities that defaults to

diff --git a/man/pidstat.1 b/man/pidstat.1
index cfce986db07e8fd470a18d4938faed223f95e807..a67ab64486ae6777d5909dd5708dcff2d97e1cfe 100644 (file)
--- a/man/pidstat.1
+++ b/man/pidstat.1
@@ -555,6 +555,10 @@ or
 .IR auto
 (the latter is the default).
 
+Please note that the color (being red, yellow, or some other color) used to display a value
+is not indicative of any kind of issue simply because of the color. It only indicates different
+ranges of values.
+
 .IP S_COLORS_SGR
 Specify the colors and other attributes used to display statistics on the terminal.
 Its value is a colon-separated list of capabilities that defaults to

diff --git a/man/sar.in b/man/sar.in
index 7dd65c9ce89cb8a4b637977cba54a45965abe64b..4c79496ac3e6f4b5fdf2a42be263b8d919f8bdbd 100644 (file)
--- a/man/sar.in
+++ b/man/sar.in
@@ -2213,6 +2213,10 @@ or
 .IR auto
 (the latter is the default).
 
+Please note that the color (being red, yellow, or some other color) used to display a value
+is not indicative of any kind of issue simply because of the color. It only indicates different
+ranges of values.
+
 .IP S_COLORS_SGR
 Specify the colors and other attributes used to display statistics on the terminal. 
 Its value is a colon-separated list of capabilities that defaults to