issue installing svnserve as xinetd service in Fedora

lipidinc · 02-03-2006, 04:42 PM

The following is my service "definition" in [/etc/xinetd.d/svnserve]:

# default: on
# description: Subversion server process
service svnserve
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = svnserveUser
server = /usr/local/bin/svnserve
server_args = -d -r /files
disable = no
}

Here are the lines from [/etc/services]:

svnserve 3690/tcp # Subversion
svnserve 3690/udp # Subversion

Subversion still isn't listed in the Services GUI and the xinetd process won't accept connections at port 3690, likely because there is some issue attempting to load svnserve as a service. Also when I do

$ ps -C svnserve

no processes come up. I have also verified that the program is indeed at the location listed above. [/files] is the root of all of my repositories. And I have also verified that "svnserveUser" is a valid user.

I would post this on the Subversion forums, but I don't think it has anything to do with Subversion, though it just might.

I appreciate any guidance you might be able to provide.

Jaqui · 03-05-2006, 03:49 AM

Here is my functioning xinet.d script:

Code:

# default: off
# description: svnserve is the server part of Subversion.
service svnserve
{
	disable	= no
    port		= 3690
    socket_type		= stream
    protocol		= tcp
    wait		= no
    user		= svn
    server		= /usr/bin/svnserve
    server_args		= -i -r /var/lib/svn/repositories
}