CVS repository not working?

[Bernhard Erdmann <be@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

what has happened to the CVS repository?

[be@ente xfs-cmds]$ cvs -q update
cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/xfs-cmds' 
(/cvs/xfs-cmds/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvs/xfs-cmds'
cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

[be@ente linux-2.4-xfs]$ cvs -q update
cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/linux-2.4-xfs' 
(/cvs/linux-2.4-xfs/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/cvs/linux-2.4-xfs'
cvs [server aborted]: read lock failed - giving up