Subversion daemon Init script
Unfortunately I didn’t find a simple good daemon Init script for a debian Linux server where I want to start the subversion server svnserve automatically on 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 /etc/init.d:
#!/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/svn'
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
case $1 in
start)
log_daemon_msg "Starting subversion daemon: $EXECUTABLE $OPTIONS"
start-stop-daemon -vo -x $EXECUTABLE -S -- $OPTIONS
log_end_msg $?
;;
stop)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping subversion daemon: $EXECUTABLE $OPTIONS"
start-stop-daemon -K -qo -x $EXECUTABLE
log_end_msg $?
;;
force-reload)
$0 restart
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
log_daemon_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/svnserve {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
After you created that script (be sure that the file is executable), you have to add the script to the boot sequence:
update-rc.d svnserve defaults
If you see errors or improvements, feel free to add a comment.
One thought on “Subversion daemon Init script”
Thanks for the nice script Patrick. I got some LSB warning when I used it on my Debian 6 machine:
\insserv: warning: script ‘svnserve’ missing LSB tags and overrides\
To solve this, the script needs a LSB header. So when using this script on a Debian 6 machine, please add the following header to prevent warnings from insserve:
#!/bin/sh
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: svnserve
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start and stop svnserve daemon at boot time
# Description: Controls the main subversion server \svnserve\ with default params.
### END INIT INFO
…
My 2 cents 🙂