At this point, you may also wish to set the environment variable $CVSROOT to point to the newly initialized directory. You can set it temporarily at the command line, or arrange for it to be set every time you log in by defining it in the startup file for your shell in your home directory (i.e. .profile for sh-style shells or .cshrc for csh-style shells). For example, in $HOME/.profile add the line:
export CVSROOT=$HOME/cvsroot
Or in $HOME/.cshrc:
setenv CVSROOT $HOME/cvsroot
From this point forward we will assume that the environment variable $CVSROOT is defined, eliminating the need to specify the ``-d'' option to cvsevery time.