Re: svnserve + ssh on Mac OS X

On Aug 23, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Bradley Wagner wrote:

> I'm by no means a unix guru but am competent enough to edit system
> files if I need to. I couldn't get a definitive answer on where to
> invoke the command to start svnserve on system start. Some places
> said /etc/inted.conf, while others said /etc/xinetd.conf. And if
> you did add a line there, did you also need to add stuff to /etc/
> services/. I didn't find the book extremely helpful in explaining
> this. Has anyone written a StartupItem to accomplish this task?

It depends on what version of Mac OS X you are using. On Tiger you
need to make a launchd plist. I'm not sure what you do for older
versions. Apple should have examples of setting up launchd plists on
the developer site.

> Also, is getting it to work through an ssh tunnel as simple as -t
> in the svnserve invocation

If you are going to use ssh, you don't need to have svnserve running
as a daemon. An instance of svnserve will be launched automatically
for each ssh login by the client (once you get svn and svnserve in
the user's PATH on the server). If your ultimate goal is to use ssh,
I'd say stay away from running it as a daemon.

Dave
Received on Wed Aug 24 02:05:14 2005