libmount: fix comment referring to passno field

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

diff --git a/term-utils/mesg.1 b/term-utils/mesg.1
index 05c42e35d8c443dc45cfb9b40b5319b78819416e..18e7c2451361189299c141d4d396da4c598e2cd8 100644 (file)
--- a/term-utils/mesg.1
+++ b/term-utils/mesg.1
@@ -31,22 +31,18 @@
 .\"
 .\"    @(#)mesg.1      8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
 .\"
-.\" Fri Mar 10 20:31:02 1995, modified for standard man macros,
-.\" faith@cs.unc.edu
-.\"
-.\"
-.\" "
-.TH MESG 1 "10 March 1995" "Linux 1.2" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH MESG 1 "July 2014" "util-linux" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
-mesg \- display (do not display) messages from other users
+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 users to control write access others have to the
-terminal device associated with the standard error output.  If write access
+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
@@ -60,38 +56,57 @@ sure your ttys are set the way you want them to be set,
 .B mesg
 should be executed in your login scripts.
 .PP
-Options available:
+The
+.B mesg
+utility silently exits with error status 2 if not executed on 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
-Disallows messages.
+Disallow messages.
 .TP
 .B y
-Permits messages to be displayed.
+Allow messages to be displayed.
 .PP
 If no arguments are given,
 .B mesg
-displays the present message status to the standard error output.
-.PP
+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
-.I "\ 0"
+.B "\ 0"
 Messages are allowed.
 .TP
-.I "\ 1"
+.B "\ 1"
 Messages are not allowed.
 .TP
-.I "\>1"
+.B ">1"
 An error has occurred.
+.RE
 .SH FILES
 .I /dev/[pt]ty[pq]?
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
-.BR biff (1),
+.BR login (1),
 .BR talk (1),
 .BR write (1),
 .BR wall (1),
-.BR login (1),
 .BR xterm (1)
 .SH HISTORY
 A
@@ -100,4 +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/.