cvs update -d -P fails

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> >   My automatic CVS update and uild has been failing for a few weeks with:
> > 
> > cvs server: Updating source
> > cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
> 
> if you are in the right directory and there is no CVS/Entries then
> something is *badly* wrong. Checkout the whole thing from scratch and
> try again?

andrew,

we frequently get this on the bin/ directory (which is auto-created by
Makefile and not in the cvs tree at all!)