Newbie install question

[Brett O'Hara]

Warning: newbie question.

I've just intalled rancid-2.1.0 on our Solaris 8, with tcl-8.3.1, tk-8.3.1,
expect-5.32, and cvs 1.11

After following the instructions, I'm now receiving;

[root at mel1:/usr/local/rancid/logs]$ cat core.20010905.150101
starting: Wed Sep 5 15:01:01 EST 2001

Trying to get all of the configs.
All routers sucessfully completed.

cvs diff: in directory .:
cvs [diff aborted]: there is no version here; run 'cvs checkout' first
cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root'

ending: Wed Sep 5 15:01:12 EST 2001

Obviously I need to run the scripts as other than root, but knowing nothing
about cvd, I'm wondering what the cvs checkout stuff is?

Regards,
   Brett