NAME

mesg — permit or deny messages

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

mesg controls whether other users are allowed to send messages to the current terminal, determined via searching for a TTY on stdin, stdout, stderr. If none were found, mesg fails.

OPERANDS

y

Allow other users to write to current terminal

n

Deny other users from writing to current terminal

EXIT STATUS

0

Other users can write.

1

Other users cannot write.

>1

An error occurred.

SEE ALSO

talk(1), write(1)

STANDARDS

mesg should be compliant with the IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 (“POSIX.1”) specification.

AUTHORS

Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact+utils@hacktivis.me>