redhat man page for mesg

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

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.

       Mesg assumes that it's 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)