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This worked for me:
bash-3.00$ cvsnt -f -d /export/local/home/toolsadm/CVS_REPO init -n
It is true that the user I was invoking cvsnt as DOES NOT have write access
to /etc/cvsnt. I assume the "-n" fixed that.
Thanks for the help,
Tom