I tested it on i386 SL5.1 with 'write yellin pts/6', where "yellin" is
my username on that computer and "pts/6" is the ttyname on which I had
typed 'mesg n'. The 'write ...' command was blocked to that terminal,
though not to any of my other terminals for which 'mesg' returned "y".
So as far as I can tell, 'mesg n' does what it's supposed to do.
Steven Yellin
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Faye Gibbins wrote:
Anyone know why 'mesg n' doesn't stop 'write' anymore on SL5.x?
Faye
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