MESG

mesg ? control write access to your terminal

mesg [y|n]

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)).

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.

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)

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