setterm: update comments about -ulcolor/-hbcolor syntax

[thirdparty/util-linux.git] / term-utils / mesg.1

diff --git a/term-utils/mesg.1 b/term-utils/mesg.1
index 9bdc6d5664a98b8a5d71ab87f36b03699b9da1aa..15c834dd71e49a409d58627307c757e7ef03015a 100644 (file)
--- a/term-utils/mesg.1
+++ b/term-utils/mesg.1
@@ -55,6 +55,15 @@ 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
@@ -94,10 +103,10 @@ An error has occurred.
 .SH FILES
 .I /dev/[pt]ty[pq]?
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR login (1),
 .BR talk (1),
 .BR write (1),
 .BR wall (1),
-.BR login (1),
 .BR xterm (1)
 .SH HISTORY
 A
@@ -106,4 +115,4 @@ command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
 
 .SH AVAILABILITY
 The mesg command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
-ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
+https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.