–>then you probably haven’t specified ‘-f’ in ‘inetd.conf’.
–>In releases prior to CVS 1.11.1, this problem can be caused by your system setting the $HOME environment variable for programs being run by xinetd. In this case, you can either have xinetd run a shell script that unsets $HOME and then runs CVS, or you can use env to run CVS with a pristine environment.