Subject: messages on/off?

From: R R Neuswanger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:37:27 -0400

A colleague whom I am trying to help learn to
use pine shows up on finger (with pine suspended) with a
line saying "messages off"! Is this something we can
change (with her sign-on, of course), or do we need a
guru?

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 07:29:56 +0800 (GMT)

> change (with her sign-on, of course), or do we need a

	Of course the "messages off" has nothing to do with email
messages.  It has to do with the ability of another user on the
system using "write" to "talk" to their termial.

	Check your setup/config for the state of the "allow-talk" option.
Reading the help is a good lesson as well.

	In addition, it is possible that the account is set such that
messages are turned off by default.  Check the man page on the "mesg"
command.  Issue the "mesg" command from the command line.  If messages
are turned off...you can enable them with the same command.  You can
add the command to your .profile, .login, or .cshrc....or whatever
startup file makes sense.

	Regards,

		Ed
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