Re: Newbie: running svnserve on win32 as a service

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 12:41, Olivier Lange wrote:
> I then tried to wrap svnserver with FireDaemon to start it automatically
> with the server. I used the same command, but did not manage to get it
> working.

I can't help with this, unfortunately; I know nothing about FireDaemon.
But I can answer some other questions:

> When I start svnserve on the command line with svnserve -r, it does not
> accept any connection.
>
> > svnserve -r f:\database\svnroot
> ( 1 1 ( ANONYMOUS ) ( ) )
>
> > svn list svn://localhost
> svn: Can't connect to host 'localhost'
>
> What is this mode for (without the -d switch)? Is it only working for Unix?

Yes, basically. With no arguments, svnserve behaves appropriately for
being run out of inetd or xinetd.

> I also read that svnserve does not fork() on win32 and therefore would not
> allow to run 'svn diff' and 'svn merge' commands. Is it definitely not
> recommended to run svnserve on a win2000 server or might it fork() some day
> and run as fine as on Unix?

Only some diff operations are affected.

You can't really fork on Windows. Some day svnserve might use threads
when it can't fork. I'm not sure when that day might come.

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Received on Thu Apr 24 19:33:36 2003