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.


AUTHOR

       Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)


SEE ALSO

       talk(1), write(1), wall(1)


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