NAME

mesgd - message send protocol daemon

SYNOPSIS

mesgd [-d] [-i] [-t] [-p port]

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

-d: Enables debugging.
-t: Option to enable tcp connection via inetd.
-i: Option to enable udp processing via inetd.
-p port: Sets the internet port number to use. Normally the default port ⅛ will be used.

Files

~/.message store of old or unread messages
/var/message/$USER alternative location for messages
~/.msgsig signature to add to messages

Authors

Geoff Arnold <geoff@tyger.East.Sun.COM> wrote the core.
Andrew Herbert <andrew@werple.apana.org.au> cleaned it up a bit.
Zik Saleeba <zik@zikzak.apana.org.au> did many extensions and rewrites.
Michael Strates <mstrates@minkirri.apana.org.au> has taken over the project to hopefully keep continuing it.

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