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 1)

/etc/init.d/svnserve start

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