Hi, In my quest for knowledge and enlightenment I'm trying to get subversion set up; and the first thing I'd like to achieve is to get svnserve going. My setup is SUSE 10.0 on an AMD64bit dual core machine. Everything has been installed via YaST and updated via YOU. I have svnserver version 1.2.3: peter@linux:~> svnserve --version svnserve, version 1.2.3 (r15833) compiled Sep 13 2005, 02:25:01 Copyright (C) 2000-2005 CollabNet. Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/ This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/). The following repository back-end (FS) modules are available: * fs_base : Module for working with a Berkeley DB repository. * fs_fs : Module for working with a plain file (FSFS) repository. When I try to enable svnserve in YaST, I get: /etc/init.d/svnserve start returned 2 (invalid or excess arguments) Looking at the svnserve script in /etc/init.d, I see: case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting svnserve " ## Start daemon with startproc(8). If this fails ## the return value is set appropriately by startproc. startproc -u "$SVNSERVE_USERID" -g "$SVNSERVE_GROUPID" -e $SVNSERVE_BIN $SVNSERVE_OPTIONS # Remember status and be verbose rc_status -v ;; ... Now, as far as I know those environment variables, except for SVNSERVE_BIN, have no value. The complete script is attached. Can anyone see what I need to do in order to get svnserve up and running? Thanks Peter #! /bin/sh # Copyright (c) 1995-2002 SuSE Linux AG, Nuernberg, Germany. # All rights reserved. # # /etc/init.d/svnserve # and its symbolic link # /usr/sbin/rcsvnserve # # LSB compatible service control script; see http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ # # Note: This script uses functions rc_XXX defined in /etc/rc.status on # UnitedLinux (UL) based Linux distributions. If you want to base your # script on this template and ensure that it works on non UL based LSB # compliant Linux distributions, you either have to provide the rc.status # functions from UL or change the script to work without them. ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: svnserve # Required-Start: $syslog $remote_fs # X-UnitedLinux-Should-Start: $time ypbind sendmail # Required-Stop: $syslog $remote_fs # X-UnitedLinux-Should-Stop: $time ypbind sendmail # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6 # Description: readonly access to a subversion repository ### END INIT INFO # Note on runlevels: # 0 - halt/poweroff 6 - reboot # 1 - single user 2 - multiuser without network exported # 3 - multiuser w/ network (text mode) 5 - multiuser w/ network and X11 (xdm) # # Note on script names: # http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.2.0/gLSB/scrptnames.html # A registry has been set up to manage the init script namespace. # http://www.lanana.org/ # Please use the names already registered or register one or use a # vendor prefix. # Check for missing binaries (stale symlinks should not happen) SVNSERVE_BIN=/usr/bin/svnserve test -x $SVNSERVE_BIN || exit 5 # Check for existence of needed config file and read it SVNSERVE_CONFIG=/etc/sysconfig/svnserve test -r $SVNSERVE_CONFIG || exit 6 . $SVNSERVE_CONFIG # Source LSB init functions # providing start_daemon, killproc, pidofproc, # log_success_msg, log_failure_msg and log_warning_msg. # This is currently not used by UnitedLinux based distributions and # not needed for init scripts for UnitedLinux only. If it is used, # the functions from rc.status should not be sourced or used. #. /lib/lsb/init-functions # Shell functions sourced from /etc/rc.status: # rc_check check and set local and overall rc status # rc_status check and set local and overall rc status # rc_status -v be verbose in local rc status and clear it afterwards # rc_status -v -r ditto and clear both the local and overall rc status # rc_status -s display "skipped" and exit with status 3 # rc_status -u display "unused" and exit with status 3 # rc_failed set local and overall rc status to failed # rc_failed <num> set local and overall rc status to <num> # rc_reset clear both the local and overall rc status # rc_exit exit appropriate to overall rc status # rc_active checks whether a service is activated by symlinks # rc_splash arg sets the boot splash screen to arg (if active) . /etc/rc.status # Reset status of this service rc_reset # Return values acc. to LSB for all commands but status: # 0 - success # 1 - generic or unspecified error # 2 - invalid or excess argument(s) # 3 - unimplemented feature (e.g. "reload") # 4 - user had insufficient privileges # 5 - program is not installed # 6 - program is not configured # 7 - program is not running # 8--199 - reserved (8--99 LSB, 100--149 distrib, 150--199 appl) # # Note that starting an already running service, stopping # or restarting a not-running service as well as the restart # with force-reload (in case signaling is not supported) are # considered a success. case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting svnserve " ## Start daemon with startproc(8). If this fails ## the return value is set appropriately by startproc. startproc -u "$SVNSERVE_USERID" -g "$SVNSERVE_GROUPID" -e $SVNSERVE_BIN $SVNSERVE_OPTIONS # Remember status and be verbose rc_status -v ;; stop) echo -n "Shutting down svnserve " ## Stop daemon with killproc(8) and if this fails ## killproc sets the return value according to LSB. killproc -TERM $SVNSERVE_BIN # Remember status and be verbose rc_status -v ;; try-restart) ## Do a restart only if the service was active before. ## Note: try-restart is not (yet) part of LSB (as of 1.2) $0 status >/dev/null && $0 restart # Remember status and be quiet rc_status ;; restart) ## Stop the service and regardless of whether it was ## running or not, start it again. $0 stop $0 start # Remember status and be quiet rc_status ;; force-reload) echo -n "Reload service svnserve " $0 stop && $0 start #rc_status ;; status) echo -n "Checking for service svnserve " ## Check status with checkproc(8), if process is running ## checkproc will return with exit status 0. # Return value is slightly different for the status command: # 0 - service up and running # 1 - service dead, but /var/run/ pid file exists # 2 - service dead, but /var/lock/ lock file exists # 3 - service not running (unused) # 4 - service status unknown :-( # 5--199 reserved (5--99 LSB, 100--149 distro, 150--199 appl.) # NOTE: checkproc returns LSB compliant status values. checkproc $SVNSERVE_BIN # NOTE: rc_status knows that we called this init script with # "status" option and adapts its messages accordingly. rc_status -v ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|try-restart|restart|force-reload}" exit 1 ;; esac rc_exit -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com