RE: Checkout problem on cvs host

[Craig Dickson]

> > 
> > When I run the following command on a client computer it works as
expected:
> > 
> > cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/usr/local/cvsroot checkout -d . test
>
>Running CVS as root is nuts.  Doing it using pserver doubly so.

Its just a test system, so get over it.

>
> > However, when I run it on the box that is actually hosting the cvs
pserver,
> > I get this:
> > 
> > cvs server: existing repository /usr/local/cvsroot does not match
> > /usr/local/cvsroot/test
> > cvs server: ignoring module test
>
> checkout really wants to create the directory.  The usual advice is to
> run the command from one level higher in the tree with a real directory
> name rather than ".".

that doesn't explain the error message, since the operation works on a
client. the question is, what is different when running on the actual host
server that might cause this message?