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.

NOTES

       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)

                                                  Feb 26, 2001                                           MESG(1)