cvs update from a remote machine with a full path

[Ashwini S. Thirunahari]

Hi

My CVSROOT is set to rsh a remote machine as below:
    CVSROOT bud12.cs.edu:/usr/users/abc/bin

when I "cvs update" and give complete (absolute) path, I get an error.

cvs update /bin/machines/scripts/abc.tcl

When executing the above command I was in directory "machines"

If I were to give the path from current directory, it works OK. Follwoing
command has no issues.
cvs update ./scripts

If am NOT rsh ing, CVS accepts complete path. But with rsh, CVS has an
issue?
Did anybody see this? Any suggestions?

Thanks
Ashwin