Strange behavior svnserve.conf auth-access

Hello,
    One of our Sys-Admins here set up a SVN repository for us to test with
(We are trying to convert over from cvs to svn). His svnserve.conf file had
these entries:
########
[general]

anon-access = none
auth-access = write,read

password-db = passwd
########

After some discussion with the guys from the Subclipse project we realized
that the auth-access needed to be set to just "write" not "write,read".

Before making the change however, we noticed that we were not able to
connect to the repository at all. It was acting as if anon-access was set to
"none" (which it was) and auth-access was also set to "none". The Systems
administrator did not receive any notification telling him that he had made
a mistake, and I'm not sure where the log files are. I checked /var/logs and
didn't see anything there.

Is this a predicted behavior, and where does svnserve log to so we can avoid
future mistakes?

Thanks for any help,
Eric

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