====== Starting subversion from init.d ======

If you'd like to start subversion automatically from init.d, you can do the following

  * kill the running process if it exists

  pskill svnserve

  * download the svnserve init.d script

  cd /etc/init.d/
  wget http://www.soderlind.no/download/svnserve.txt
  mv svnserve.txt svnserve
  chmod 755 svnserve

  * Edit the script

The "stop" functionality of the above script is broken, follow these steps to fix it:

  # update the host and repository
  HOST=<IP or domain>
  REPOSITORY=/var/svn # or another path if you like
  
  #move the line PIDFILE before DAEMON_ARGS
  PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
  DAEMON_ARGS="-d --pid-file $PIDFILE --listen-host $HOST --listen-port $PORT -r $REPOSITORY"
  #note that I added --pid-file $PIDFILE to make sure svnserve writes 
  #his PID to the correct location (so stop/restart knows where to find it)

  * Create the start / stop scrips

  update-rc.d svnserve defaults


  * start svnserve ((this will start subversion listening on port 8080, if you want to use another port you'd have to edit the /etc/init.d/svnserve script and change the value of the PORT variable))

  /etc/init.d/svnserve start

The next time you restart your server, subversion will start automatically