David B. Teague wrote: > Where is mesg set to 'n' as a boot-up default? Makes talk > virtually useless, at least with our folk. I have looked at all > (most?) of the boot stuff in /etc and its subdirectories, and > .bash_profile. Didn't find it.
You can't find that it /etc. The permissions of your tty will show you if mesg is enabled or not. If the you have the "group write" permission on the tty the mesg status is "y". You can set "mesg y" in your /etc/profile if you want to have "mesg y" as default for all users. Peter -- Peter Tobias EMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany
