automake files unreadable from viewcvs and anoncvs barfs

[John Paul Wallington]

I cannot snarf automake via anoncvs:

export CVS_RSH="ssh"
cvs -z3 -d:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/automake co automake

gives:

cvs server: cannot find module `automake' - ignored
cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot expand modules

So I visit http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/automake/

and it says:

"NOTE: One or more files were unreadable. The files in the CVS
repository should be readable by the web server process. Please report
this condition to the administrator of this CVS repository."