You should not do any development on software.sandia.gov. Instead, check out a copy to your local machine. Be sure to correctly set your CVS_RSH environment variable to ssh.
cvs -d :ext:username@software.sandia.gov:/space/CVS checkout -P nox
cvs update -d -P
We have installed a web front end for browsing and querying the CVS repository.
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