CVS checkout appears to hang

[randy reed]

Hi all,

I've searched the message archive about this but to no avail. I'm using 
the cvs command

*cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/home/cvslj co livejournal*

It appears to work fine then it simply stops. Last thing it says is

Updating livejournal/var/
U livejournal/var/.placeholder

There are no error messages. I thought maybe it was still doing 
something but 20 minutes later it has not returned to a $. Is it 
supposed to do this? Should I wait longer? Is it hung? What should I do?

Thanks in advance
Randy