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Re: please help, svn repository stopped working...

From: John Szakmeister <john_at_szakmeister.net>
Date: 2005-04-12 11:08:06 CEST

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 01:32, BlackYoda wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> Thanks for your response... Let me correct myself, I am indeed running
> apache 2.0.
> I installed the server so long ago I forgot that I installed apache
> 2.0.
>
> But since I received your response I started digging deeper, and
> discovered what was causing the problem.
> I am running FC3 - and selinux was enabled. Back when I was doing the
> original install I spent hours trying to figure out what was wrong, and
> somehow finally I stumbled across the fact that SELinux was casing
> those access errors, and so I disabled it, and everything worked. It
> probably wormed its way back to enabled on my system when I rebooted a
> while ago, and I have not used the repository much and mostly forgot
> about this issue.
>
> If anyone knows how to permanently disable selinux I think that would
> be superb.
> Or if anyone knows more about why selinux interferres with
> web_dav/Apache2/subversion and how I can make them play nice then that
> might be good too. But I'm not convinced that selinux is doing anything
> for me period and would like to kill it once and for all probably.

This is a pretty well-known FAQ:
  http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#reposperms

-John

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