EmptyDir in CVSROOT direcotory

[Brendan J Simon]

I have been using a cvs server on a Win2000 machine and now shifting the 
repository to a Debian Linux PowerPC machine.  I did this some time ago 
as a test and it worked fine.  When trying the same thing recently I 
found that I had permission problems trying to checkout a test module.  
I found by making the CVSROOT directory read/write to the group solved 
the problem.  It seems that cvs is creating a EmptyDir directory in CVSROOT.

I read Larry Jones' post dated Oct 24th but I still don't understand.  
Why does cvs need to create an EmptyDir when I want to checkout files 
from the repository to a fresh sandbox on my local machine ????

I copied the files from the Win2000 box to the Linux box using 'cp -a'.  
Is this OK or could this be causing the problems I'm seeing ???  Maybe 
there is an newline/carriage-return issue somewhere ???

Any suggestions or ideas ???

Thanks,
Brendan Simon.