Re: CVSROOT not used

[Stuart Cooper]

> On a new system, I have a different user name/user ID.  I have CVSROOT
> set up to account for that, something like this:

>    CVSROOT=:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot.foo

> I get "permission denied" unless I specify this same value with a '-d'
> option -- i.e., all works okay with -d command line options but I
> always get "permission denied" errors when relying only on the CVSROOT
> setting.  I've tried all rsh access manually and it works.  What am I
> missing?

Double check you've exported your CVSROOT.

Also try
cvs -d $CVSROOT
which should also work.

Stuart.