diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b7ad40d2b..daef21f0b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@
    - stevesk@cvs.openbsd.org 2002/01/29 16:29:02
      [session.c]
      limit subsystem length in log; ok markus@
+   - markus@cvs.openbsd.org 2002/01/29 16:41:19
+     [ssh-add.1]
+     add DIAGNOSTICS; ok stevesk@
 
 20020130
  - (djm) Delay PRNG seeding until we need it in ssh-keygen, from markus@
@@ -7441,4 +7444,4 @@
  - Wrote replacements for strlcpy and mkdtemp
  - Released 1.0pre1
 
-$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.1809 2002/02/05 01:14:10 djm Exp $
+$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.1810 2002/02/05 01:14:41 djm Exp $
diff --git a/ssh-add.1 b/ssh-add.1
index ef60d0204..c78295209 100644
--- a/ssh-add.1
+++ b/ssh-add.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: ssh-add.1,v 1.28 2001/12/21 10:06:43 djm Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: ssh-add.1,v 1.29 2002/01/29 16:41:19 markus Exp $
 .\"
 .\"  -*- nroff -*-
 .\"
@@ -135,6 +135,11 @@ may be necessary to redirect the input from
 .Pa /dev/null
 to make this work.)
 .El
+.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
+Exit status is 0 on success, 1 if the specified command fails,
+and 2 if
+.Nm
+is unable to contact the authentication agent.
 .Sh AUTHORS
 OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free
 ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.