>>> If you are concerned about people sending bad things to your screen >>> then you should also take a look at syslogd which allows anyone to >>> send a message to all users logged in [...]. >> Why would you want to do that? Then you would hose your session as >> well, right? You could protect yourself by telling your comm program to emulate a Hazeltine or something else that doesn't understand the string you're spewing at everyone. You could also protect yourself by not having a session on the target machine at the time. > Any lamer that forgets to say 'mesg n' to protect himself before > using syslogd to hose everybody, *deserves* to get hosed himself. In my experience, syslog messages pay no attention to the mesg setting, so mesg n wouldn't help at all. der Mouse mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu