diff --git a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/replaycons.1.rst b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/replaycons.1.rst
index 0cd788690..d8f65b8fe 100644
--- a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/replaycons.1.rst
+++ b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/references/man1/replaycons.1.rst
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ the speed of the output play back.  (The logs are stored in /var/log/consoles.)
 \ **replaycons**\  must be run locally on the system on which the console log is stored.  This is normally
 that management node, but in a hierarchical cluster will usually be the service node.
 
+Note that when used with confluent, log rotation will cause older logs to have a filename that replaycons
+does not understand.  You can have replaycons process an older log by appending the suffix seen in
+/var/log/confluent/consoles/.  For example, 'replaycons n1.2018-02-02' will show the log file indicated.
+
 
 *******
 OPTIONS
diff --git a/xCAT-client/pods/man1/replaycons.1.pod b/xCAT-client/pods/man1/replaycons.1.pod
index e41a5c07d..a09a69a5b 100644
--- a/xCAT-client/pods/man1/replaycons.1.pod
+++ b/xCAT-client/pods/man1/replaycons.1.pod
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ the speed of the output play back.  (The logs are stored in /var/log/consoles.)
 B<replaycons> must be run locally on the system on which the console log is stored.  This is normally
 that management node, but in a hierarchical cluster will usually be the service node.
 
+Note that when used with confluent, log rotation will cause older logs to have a filename that replaycons
+does not understand.  You can have replaycons process an older log by appending the suffix seen in
+/var/log/confluent/consoles/.  For example, 'replaycons n1.2018-02-02' will show the log file indicated.
+
 
 =head1 OPTIONS
 
diff --git a/xCAT-server/bin/replaycons b/xCAT-server/bin/replaycons
index 29c64e688..2ad194d53 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/bin/replaycons
+++ b/xCAT-server/bin/replaycons
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ if ($::VERSION) {
 }
 
 if (@ARGV < 1) {
-    print "Please specify a node name.\n";
+    print "$usage_string\n";
     exit(1);
 }