NAME
mesg - control write access to your terminal
SYNOPSIS
mesg [y|n]
DESCRIPTION
Mesg controls the access to your
terminal by others. It's typically used to allow or disallow other
users to write to your terminal (see write(1)).
OPTIONS
- y
- Allow write access to your terminal.
- n
- Disallow write access to your terminal.
If no option is given, mesg prints out the current access
state of your terminal.
Mesg assumes that its standard input is connected to your
terminal. That also means that if you are logged in multiple times,
you can get/set the mesg status of other sessions by using
redirection. For example "mesg n < /dev/pts/46".
AUTHOR
Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
SEE ALSO
talk(1),
write(1),
wall(1)