Hi Steve,
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
I'm pleased to say your suggestion has solved my problem.
Very much appreciated...
P.S. As I'm still learning subversion I prefer to just use the
command-line for now so I'm avoiding the webdav client problem...
Thanks again...
Saimon
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 18:55, Steve Benigan wrote:
> Hello. I'm not set up on the subversion groups so I'm responding directly.
> I'm fairly sure that your problem occurs b/c the repository was created by
> root but then used by apache. I used to have similar if not the same
> problems until I:
>
> created respository as root
> chown -R apache repos
> chgrp -R apache repos
>
> and for a bit of security:
>
> chmod -R 700 repos
>
> Then I believe svn via apache should work properly. I think some files were
> writable by apache while some were not and would cause the repository to
> become 'wedged'. Running svnadmin recover as root makes certain files owned
> by root as you have said so you have to change the permissions. Always run
> svnadmin commands with the user that owns the repository.
>
> To avoid using apache's default user, I have resorted to installing a
> separate build of apache to use with subversion. It runs under a completely
> different user and group and I use that user to create and administer the
> repository. I haven't had any problems since like the one above. If you
> use webdav as a client as opposed to the command line client on windows, the
> repository can become 'wedged' with the update succeeding. This as far as I
> can tell is a different problem related to db's memory usage.
>
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