Re: Starting svnserve under OS X Tiger

On Sep 4, 2005, at 9:31 PM, Chris Gehlker wrote:

> I downloaded and built Subversion 1.2.3 from source with no
> problems. I tested it from the command line and from XCode and it
> was all good. Then I went to turn on svnserve so my fellow students
> could work on our project and I got in trouble. The book talks
> about inetd but when I look at /etc/inetd.conf it is all commented
> out and tells me that OS X now uses xinetd.

Why use (x)inetd at all? Just start svnserve as a standalone daemon:

    $ svnserve -d

Make sure you start it as the appropriate user, of course; whatever
that user may be, that user should own all the repositories it exports.

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