On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to get svnserve working on my Ubuntu Server machine. I basically want to run svnserve as a "service" (windows terminology?) so that I can continue to use my server as normal. I want it to run like apache2 runs, that is apache2 runs as a daemon and does not block me from doing other things. I notice that just running svnserve blocks, and I cannot run other commands, so I need alternatives.

The SVN book does not help me figure out at all how to do what I want to do. I am also not sure how you tell xinetd what command to run on svnserve. For example, I will need to be able to specify which root directory svnserve is restricted to (I don't want to share my root).

Help is very much appreciated.

Update:

I went here and followed the instructions:
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-09/1282.shtml

However, doing the following command does not work:
svn ls svn://localhost/personal

I get the following error message:
svn: Can't connect to host 'localhost': Connection refused

What could be causing this? Is there a log somewhere I can view?