The man page for write (and for wall on another well known distro) mention
that mesg does not block the super-user. I suspect this may be the cause of
the confusion.
Shane
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?
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