Making your own repository ctd...

$ ls -la /var/lib/cvs/testmod/
total 8
drwxrwsr-x  2 peter cvsusers 4096 Aug 26 12:26 .
drwxrwsr-x  5 root  cvsusers 4096 Aug 26 12:26 ..

• As you can see, at this moment there is absolutely nothing in the repository. This may tempt you to do what I've always done in the past, which is simply to create the directory with the appropriate permissions.