The line in the inetd.conf file should have a -f parameter before the
--allow-root= parameter.

The --help-options command lists -f as do not use ~/.cvsrc file but this
also stops the server side from looking for the .cvsignore configuration
file.

Regards
John Scott.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 04 August 2000 07:36
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: CVS pserver and RedHat 6.2
> 
> 
> Hello!
> 
> CVS in pserver mode behave strange on my RedHat 6.2 installation. When
> checking out from the repository CVS try to locate the file 
> .cvsignore in
> the /root catalog. Since this catalog is not searchable the 
> checkout ends.
> CVS 1.10.7 is shiped with RedHat 6.2. I have tried to 
> installed a few other
> versions of CVS  (1.10.5 and 1.10.8) both as rpm and tar, but 
> I always get
> the same result. 
> 
> -Thomas
> 


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