Re: --root not recognized

On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Rolf Schumacher wrote:
> May be I'm wrong, Uli, but what I see is:
>
> 1. I do not have Apache installed, (I'm running Tomcat, but there is no
> servlet-based server for subversion)
>
> 2. There is no sign that svnserve was started (ps ax, grep svn * in
> /etc/init.d)
>
> 3. /etc/inetd.conf does not contain an entry for svnserve
>
> 4. I do not have xinetd installed

Well, both inetd and xinetd would start svnserve on demand when configured to
do so, but as I said, it would be very untypical for Debian to do that just
because you installed the Subversion package.

> I have the subversion package installed (apt-get install subversion) and
> I can communicate with the server over the internet, however, only by
> svn+ssh://, while svn:// does not work.

I'm not sure if that surprises you, but just in case let me repeat: svn+ssh
means that the svn client creates a SSH connection to the machine, starts an
svnserve instance there and tunnels the IO through the SSH connection. That
means that no system-wide service needs to be started or registered with
svn+ssh!

Also, just in case that is unclear, the svnserve program is not in any way
special or requires special privileges or system-wide configuration. What it
can do all depends on the user it was started as and what files that user can
access.

Summary: the behaviour you describe is perfectly normal and expected.

Uli

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