terminal problem

jaspreet85 · 07-19-2005, 04:19 PM

hi

every time i open my terminal i get the following error:

bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
bash: /dev/null: Permission denied

what might be the problem???

jessy

Matir · 07-19-2005, 04:31 PM

That could be caused by a permissions error on /dev/null.

try 'ls -l /dev/null'

jaspreet85 · 07-20-2005, 12:40 AM

ya /dev/null has root permissions ..do I hav to change it to users???

Matir · 07-20-2005, 10:15 AM

/dev/null should look like

Code:

crw-rw-rw-  1 root root 1, 3 Jul 20 09:35 /dev/null

. Is that how your /dev/null appears? Also, you're not using any sort of chroot, are you?