Comments on: Howto: Start Subversion at Boot on Ubuntu

By: Subversion daemon Init script | assumption of advancement

Subversion daemon Init script | assumption of advancement — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:15:47 +0000

[...] start-up. So after a little bit searching on the internet and adapting the found resources (here or here), I got my Init script svnserve under [...]

By: barleone

barleone — Fri, 07 May 2010 12:27:46 +0000

Thanks for this simple yet powerfull solution!
I’ve got it working on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

QUESTION: The other scripts also look interesting. But how to make these working? Where to put them?

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:23:32 +0000

Thanks! You rock.

By: Flashmob

Flashmob — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:53:14 +0000

Thanks! I will recommend this to all my friends.

By: Dinesh Dharme

Dinesh Dharme — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:07:11 +0000

Thanks, it was really helpful. There were other scripts but they were little complex

By: Keith Lynch

Keith Lynch — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:33:54 +0000

Found the following worked best on Ubuntu

#!/bin/sh
#
# start/stop subversion daemon.
EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/svnserve

# Test exist:ence of the executable
test -f $EXECUTABLE || exit 0

# Command line options for starting the service
OPTIONS=’-d -r /var/svnrepos’

case $1 in
start)
echo -n “Starting subversion daemon: $EXECUTABLE $OPTIONS\n”
start-stop-daemon -vo -x $EXECUTABLE -S — $OPTIONS
echo -n “.”
;;

stop)
echo -n “Stopping subversion daemon: $EXECUTABLE $OPTIONS\n”
start-stop-daemon -K -qo -x $EXECUTABLE
echo -n “.”
;;

force-reload)
$0 restart
;;

restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;

*)
echo ‘Usage: /etc/init.d/subversion {start|stop|restart}’
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0

By: Ravi

Ravi — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:02:15 +0000

That was a very crisp to the point solution I was looking for … Thanks a Lot

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:25:32 +0000

Just so everyone knows… the characters in the above script that need to be changed are the long dashes to double hypens, and the quotes to simple quotes (not smart quotes). Also note that you can test your script from the command line and make sure all three cases (start, stop, restart, etc) work without rebooting each time.

This script and howto really helps. Thanks to everyone who has posted to this topic!!

By: Sean O

Sean O — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:22:43 +0000

The following init script is the head of an example built from the skeleton init script in Ubuntu (/etc/init.d/skeleton) and works for me in Hardy Heron (server edition) just fine. Please note that my repositories are located at “/home/svn,” you may need to modify this.

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: svnserve
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: S 0 1 6
# Short-Description: SVN initscript
# Description: This file starts the SVN server (svnserve) at boot and should be
# placed in /etc/init.d.
### END INIT INFO

# Author: Sean O’Brien

# Do NOT “set -e”

# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
DESC=”Description of the service”
NAME=svnserve
DAEMON=/usr/bin/$NAME
DAEMON_ARGS=”-d -r /home/svn”
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

By: Infrarotkabine

Infrarotkabine — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:24:16 +0000

Thanks for sharing this guide