Hi,
this was indeed the problem!
The rest of cygwin runs so great under Windows that it never occurred to me
that this could be the problem.
Thank you very much,
Holger Naundorf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Archer" <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com>
To: "Holger Naundorf" <honaun_at_web.de>; <users_at_subversion.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 3:10 PM
Subject: RE: Problems running svnserve as Windows service
>> I am trying to run svnserve as a windows service.
>> At different places (like http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#svnserve-
>> win-service) I found a very good description of what I have to do.
>> Unfortunately, when I follow the description, I have no problems
>> registering the Windows service (both on Vista and XP) but on both
>> systems, I cannot start the service.
>> The command I use for registering is:
>> sc create svn binpath= "D:\cygwin\bin\svnserve.exe --service -r
>> D:\SubVersionReps\Default" displayname= "Subversion Server" depend= Tcpip
>> start= auto
>>
>
> Why are you trying to run the Cygwin version of svnserve? I'm pretty sure
> you can only run that if you are in the Cygwin runtime environment. You
> need to use the native windows binaries.
>
> BOb
>
Received on 2010-03-19 18:24:05 CET