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MESG
Section: Linux User's Manual (1)
Updated: Feb 26, 2001
Index NAME
mesg - control write access to your terminal
SYNOPSIS
mesg[
y|
n]
DESCRIPTION
Mesgcontrols the access to your terminal by others. It's typically used toallow 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 yourterminal.
NOTES
Mesg assumes that its standard input is connected to yourterminal. 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 (miquelsAATTcistron.nl)
SEE ALSO
talk(1),
write(1),
wall(1)
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- OPTIONS
- NOTES
- AUTHOR
- SEE ALSO
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