Jeff wrote: > I re-imported piper, but this time to the new server. Ooops, it wasn't very happy with me trying to connect: $ export CVS_RSH='ssh' $ export CVSROOT=':ext:chapmanb at alpha.bioinformatics.org:/cvsroot' $ cvs checkout piper chapmanb's password: cvs server: Updating piper cvs server: failed to create lock directory in repository `/cvsroot/piper': Permission denied cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvsroot/piper' cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up Not sure what the problem is. Any thoughts? Brad