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09-27-2005

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65 thousand dollar question

I was just a-wondering through some hardware and software sites, and in one of them, I was scrolling down a UNIX os page when I noticed that the prices for these OS's were climbing alarmingly high; in the 5 to 10 G's.

Imagine my surprise when I saw one particular UNIX os selling for 65 freakin' thousand buckos!

So, my question is... what would make a UNIX os so expensive, and who/what would use/pay for it???

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mesg

MESG(1) 						     Linux Programmer's Manual							   MESG(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       mesg [n|y]

DESCRIPTION

       The  mesg  utility is invoked by a users to control write access others have to the terminal device associated with the standard error out-
       put.  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.

       Options available:

       n      Disallows messages.

       y      Permits messages to be displayed.

       If no arguments are given, mesg displays the present message status to the standard error output.

       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

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

HISTORY

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

AVAILABILITY

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

Linux 1.2							   10 March 1995							   MESG(1)