There are some organisation still using older versions of CVS servers which don't support rlog with -S option. The CVS server the team I am on use is out of our control and there is no plan to upgrade it. If I don't 'select skip changelog' the build will always fail with the exception listed below. I have tested executing this command without the -S option and the command is successful. A fix for this could be to include a checkbox in the build configuration which allows the user to run rlog in a legacy mode without the -S option.

Using locally configured password for connection to :pserver:userx@xxxx-xxxxxxxx:/ra1/CVS
cvs rlog -S -d25 Oct 2013 16:35:32 +1100<29 Oct 2013 10:57:37 +1100
myproject/xxx/xxx
cvs server: invalid option – S
Usage: cvs rlog [-lRhtNb] [-r[revisions]] [-d dates] [-s states]
[-w[logins]] [files...]
-l Local directory only, no recursion.
-R Only print name of RCS file.
-h Only print header.
-t Only print header and descriptive text.
-N Do not list tags.
-b Only list revisions on the default branch.
-r[revisions] Specify revision(s)s to list.
rev1:rev2 Between rev1 and rev2, including rev1 and rev2.
rev1::rev2 Between rev1 and rev2, excluding rev1 and rev2.
rev: rev and following revisions on the same branch.
rev:: After rev on the same branch.
:rev rev and previous revisions on the same branch.
::rev Before rev on the same branch.
rev Just rev.
branch All revisions on the branch.
branch. The last revision on the branch.
-d dates Specify dates (D1<D2 for range, D for latest before).
-s states Only list revisions with specified states.
-w[logins] Only list revisions checked in by specified logins.
(Specify the --help global option for a list of other help options)

FATAL: Error while trying to run CVS rlog
java.lang.RuntimeException: Error while trying to run CVS rlog
at hudson.scm.AbstractCvs.getRemoteLogForModule(AbstractCvs.java:623)
at hudson.scm.AbstractCvs.calculateChangeLog(AbstractCvs.java:696)
at hudson.scm.AbstractCvs.postCheckout(AbstractCvs.java:715)
at hudson.scm.CVSSCM.checkout(CVSSCM.java:359)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:1256)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.defaultCheckout(AbstractBuild.java:590)
at jenkins.scm.SCMCheckoutStrategy.checkout(SCMCheckoutStrategy.java:88)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.run(AbstractBuild.java:495)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1502)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:237)