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/dev/null permission denial on login

Hey,

I run a redhat 9 server and have been receiving this message when trying to login via ssh

Code:

Server refused to allocate pty

-bash: line 28: /dev/null: Permission denied

                                            -bash: line 4: /dev/null: Permission denied

How can I fix this, as I just reinstalled the other day due to have some problems mounting the proc file system and other problems on boot. I have not been able to get it rebooted because it is in a remote location...I can get someone there to reboot it for me, but I would like to know if that is going to work.

Thanks for any help,
Derek

Can't really say what's going on, what does your .bash_profile, .bashrc
look like? And how did you edit those? I find the spacing in the output
most peculiar.

Cheers,
Tink

/dev/null should be world writable:

Code:

chmod 0666 /dev/null