ilouse614n4hf:~/src ahammond$
CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous at main.slony.info:/slony1" cvs co
slony1-engine

...

U slony1-engine/tools/altperl/slony_show_configuration.pl
cvs checkout: Updating slony1-engine/tools/mkservice
cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for
`/slony1/slony1-engine/tools/mkservice'
(/slony1/slony1-engine/tools/mkservice/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository
`/slony1/slony1-engine/tools/mkservice'
cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up


Looks like a permission error on the newly created mkservice directory.

Andrew