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1 | '\" -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- |
2 | .\" Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Miquel van Smoorenburg. | |
3 | .\" | |
4 | .\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
5 | .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
6 | .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | |
7 | .\" (at your option) any later version. | |
8 | .\" | |
9 | .\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
10 | .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
11 | .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
12 | .\" GNU General Public License for more details. | |
13 | .\" | |
14 | .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
15 | .\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software | |
16 | .\" Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA | |
17 | .\" | |
18 | .\"{{{}}} | |
19 | .\"{{{ Title | |
20 | .TH MESG 1 "Feb 26, 2001" "" "Linux User's Manual" | |
21 | .\"}}} | |
22 | .\"{{{ Name | |
23 | .SH NAME | |
24 | mesg \- control write access to your terminal | |
25 | .\"}}} | |
26 | .\"{{{ Synopsis | |
27 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
28 | .B mesg | |
29 | .RB [ y | n ] | |
30 | .\"}}} | |
31 | .\"{{{ Description | |
32 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
33 | .B Mesg | |
34 | controls the access to your terminal by others. It's typically used to | |
35 | allow or disallow other users to write to your terminal (see \fBwrite\fP(1)). | |
36 | .\"}}} | |
37 | .\"{{{ Options | |
38 | .SH OPTIONS | |
39 | .IP \fBy\fP | |
40 | Allow write access to your terminal. | |
41 | .IP \fBn\fP | |
42 | Disallow write access to your terminal. | |
43 | .PP | |
44 | If no option is given, \fBmesg\fP prints out the current access state of your | |
45 | terminal. | |
46 | .\"}}} | |
47 | .\"{{{ Notes | |
48 | .SH NOTES | |
49 | \fBMesg\fP assumes that its standard input is connected to your | |
50 | terminal. That also means that if you are logged in multiple times, | |
51 | you can get/set the mesg status of other sessions by using redirection. | |
52 | For example "mesg n < /dev/pts/46". | |
53 | .SH AUTHOR | |
54 | Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl) | |
55 | .\"}}} | |
56 | .\"{{{ See also | |
57 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
58 | .BR talk (1), | |
59 | .BR write (1), | |
60 | .BR wall (1) | |
61 | .\"}}} |