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)