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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? The forum Post 52903 by Neo on Tuesday 29th of June 2004 01:08:15 PM

06-29-2004

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Originally posted by dkaplowitz
What I want to know is:

What was the biggest offer you ever received for rights to the name "unix.com" ? I mean, if "Linux.com" garnered several million from VASystems, UNIX.com must have had similar offers.

Frankly I must commend this site's owner on not having succumbed to the lure of filthy lucre. I personally don't think I would have been as virtuous.

Thanks for the compliment.

I prefer not to openly discuss how much I've been offered for UNIX.COM over the past 12 years. Yes, it was a very large sum and yes, I did not accept them Smilie

It was never my intention to acquire UNIX.COM for the purpose to make a profit or commerical gain. My intent was to provide a non-commercial place in the original spirit of the Internet, like an oasis in the commercial dystopian world (desert society).

Money is the root of almost all evil......

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mesg

MESG(1)                                                            User Commands                                                           MESG(1)

NAME

       mesg - display (or do not display) messages from other users

SYNOPSIS

       mesg [option] [n|y]

DESCRIPTION

       The mesg utility is invoked by a user to control write access others have to the terminal device associated with standard error output.  If
       write access is allowed, then programs such as talk(1) and write(1) may display messages on the terminal.

       Traditionally, write access is allowed by default.  However, as users become more conscious of various security risks, there is a trend  to
       remove write access by default, at least for the primary login shell.  To make sure your ttys are set the way you want them to be set, mesg
       should be executed in your login scripts.

ARGUMENTS

       n      Disallow messages.

       y      Allow messages to be displayed.

       If no arguments are given, mesg shows the current message status on standard error output.

OPTIONS

       -v, --verbose
              Explain what is being done.

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.

       -h, --help
              Display help text and exit.

EXIT STATUS

       The mesg utility exits with one of the following values:

            0     Messages are allowed.

            1     Messages are not allowed.

           >1     An error has occurred.

FILES

       /dev/[pt]ty[pq]?

SEE ALSO

       login(1), talk(1), write(1), wall(1), xterm(1)

HISTORY

       A mesg command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

AVAILABILITY

       The mesg command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux                                                           July 2014                                                             MESG(1)