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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-06 02:42:50 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-05-06 02:42:50 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 2.33.1.upstream/2.33.1upstream
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/term-utils/mesg.1 b/term-utils/mesg.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15c834d --- /dev/null +++ b/term-utils/mesg.1 @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1987, 1990, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by the University of +.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)mesg.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 +.\" +.TH MESG 1 "July 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands" +.SH NAME +mesg \- display (or do not display) messages from other users +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B mesg +[option] +.RB [ n | y ] +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B mesg +utility is invoked by a user to control write access others have to the +terminal device associated with standard error output. If write access +is allowed, then programs such as +.BR talk (1) +and +.BR write (1) +may display messages on the terminal. +.PP +Traditionally, write access is allowed by default. However, as users +become more conscious of various security risks, there is a trend to remove +write access by default, at least for the primary login shell. To make +sure your ttys are set the way you want them to be set, +.B mesg +should be executed in your login scripts. +.PP +The +.B mesg +utility silently exits with error status 2 if the current standard error output does +not refer to the terminal. In this case execute +.B mesg +is pointless. The command line option \fB\-\-verbose\fR forces +mesg to print a warning in this situation. This behaviour has been introduced +in version 2.33. +.SH ARGUMENTS +.TP +.B n +Disallow messages. +.TP +.B y +Allow messages to be displayed. +.PP +If no arguments are given, +.B mesg +shows the current message status on standard error output. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.BR \-v , " \-\-verbose" +Explain what is being done. +.TP +.BR \-V , " \-\-version" +Display version information and exit. +.TP +.BR \-h , " \-\-help" +Display help text and exit. +.SH EXIT STATUS +The +.B mesg +utility exits with one of the following values: +.RS 4 +.TP +.B "\ 0" +Messages are allowed. +.TP +.B "\ 1" +Messages are not allowed. +.TP +.B ">1" +An error has occurred. +.RE +.SH FILES +.I /dev/[pt]ty[pq]? +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR login (1), +.BR talk (1), +.BR write (1), +.BR wall (1), +.BR xterm (1) +.SH HISTORY +A +.B mesg +command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX. + +.SH AVAILABILITY +The mesg command is part of the util-linux package and is available from +https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |