[clue-admin] Odd CVS warning publishing the website

[Jed S. Baer]

The process of publishing the CLUE website involves invoking a php script
via the website, which in turn runs a shell script. The shell script does
various things, one of which is exporting a copy of the website from the
CVS repository.

Invoked via the webserver, the script should be running as user apache.
The apache user has a home dir of /var/www

The export command:
 cvs -Q export -d /path/to/repository -r HEAD module_name

generates the warning:
 cvs export: cannot open /home/crawford/.cvsignore: Permission denied

I've greped the CVS config files, looked for symbolic links in /var/www,
and otherwise beat my head against the wall trying to figure out what
would cause CVS running as apache to want to look for a cvsignore file in
that directory, and I can find nothing.

Any hints?

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