System config version control with cvs-Unable to commit!

[Saimon Moore]

Hi,

I decide to make periodic backups of my system's configuration files (linux 
Suse 7.3) using cvs.

I importe /etc into a repository in a users home dir and changed the owner 
and group of those files to that particular user and the 'users' group.

I then checked out, the repository and proceeded to copy /etc again into the 
checked out directory.

I then issued

sudo -u saimonm cvs update etc (saimonm has permission to run cvs as himself)

This worked fine...however...after

sudo -u saimonm cvs commit -m "regular commit" etc

I got the following:

...various lines similar to the following 4
cvs commit: in directory etc/X11/susewm/AddEntrys/SuSE/Utilities/unspec:
cvs commit: ignoring CVS/Root because it does not contain an absolute 
pathname.
cvs commit: in directory etc/X11/susewm/AddEntrys/SuSE/Utilities/unspec:
cvs commit: ignoring CVS/Root because it does not contain an absolute 
pathname.
cvs [commit aborted]: cannot open directory 
/home/saimonm/cvs/configBK/#SuSEwmSKIPthisFILE

I checked out cvs archives and somebody mentioned having r/w permissions and 
setting the sguid bit for all the directories in the repo. That is the case 
and I'm still getting the same error message.

The strange thing is I can commit fine using cervisia (cvs client).

I would appreciate any sort of help on this matter as I'm a bit lost.

Thanks,

Saimon

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