subversion 1.2 hooks question

[Jay Zorzi <jz...@marketlinksolutions.com>]

I have recently installed the latest release of subversion on my linux
server.
I had a hook that automatically update the appropriate servers with the
appropriate update.
It's a post commit hook that just contains the svn update command in it.
It's owned by apache and the folder its updating is writable by apache.
 
I get this error message though
svn: Can't check path '/root/.subversion': Permission denied
 
why is it now trying to lookup a subversion folder for the user
accessing the repository.
 
Is there anyway around this?
 
I had the same script working for the previous version of svn.
 
Thanx in advance for the help