CVSIGNORE won't ignore .conf files

[Richard Ponton]

I tried using both .cvsignore and the CVSIGNORE environment variable.

Both worked for all the other types of files I wanted to ignore (like *.shtml).

In my tree there is a conf subdirectory, with various .conf files in it.

With *.conf in my cvsignore and even naming the files explicitly, it still 
wouldn't ignore
them.

RingTFM and websearches didn't yield any clues, only messages about the 
/root/.cvsignore problem.

I'm on RedHat 6.2, but I'm NOT having the /root/.cvsignore problem.

TIA for any help.