## NAME

mesg - control write access to your terminal

## SYNOPSIS

mesg

## 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

\fBy\fP

Allow write access to your terminal.

\fBn\fP

Disallow write access to your terminal.

If no option is given, mesg prints out the current access state of your terminal.

## NOTES

Mesg assumes that its 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)