Re: Subversion, xinetd, and "Malformed network data"

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:29, Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here are the results of telnet:
> >
> > $ telnet svn://localhost/myrepository
> > svn://localhost/myrepository: Unknown server error
>
> Try:
>
> telnet localhost 3690
>
> Telnet just wants a hostname and port to connect to (other options are
> available, but those are required. See man telnet for more).
>
> > I tried removing flags=REUSE but this did not help.
> >
> > I'm able to do:
> >
> > svn ls file:///srv/svn/repo/myrepository
> >
> > This works just fine.
> >
> > Am I using telnet properly to find the problem? Thanks for the help guys.
>

Wow, thanks! telnet helped perfectly. It said:

$ telnet localhost 3690
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain.
Escape character is '^]'.
svnserve: Can't check path '/srv/svn/repo': Permission denied
Connection closed by foreign host.

So I went through my directory hierarchy, and found that /srv/svn needed:

chmod o+x /srv/svn

Thanks for the help everyone!
Received on 2008-10-15 15:42:40 CEST