man/mesg.1

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  19 .\"{{{  Title
  20 .TH MESG 1 "Feb 26, 2001" "" "Linux User's Manual"
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  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 .\"}}}