cvs problems

[Andrew D Dixon]

Hi,
I've set up a CVS repository on a remote machine and done a few tests on
it but now it seems to be broken.

I created a project "hello" with a C program that prints out "Hello
world" and imported it.

    address@hidden:~/hello$ cvs import -m "initial import into cvs" hello
dixon start
    cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
    N hello/hello.c

    No conflicts created by this import

I then try to check this project back out:

    address@hidden:~$ cvs checkout hello
    cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
    cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied


I'm stumped as to what's going on here.  I can't even figure out why its
looking in /root.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Andy