Comments on: svnserve Init script

By: Jimson

Jimson — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:26:25 +0000

Thanks Mohanjith for the great post. This helped me out with my problem

By: Martin Duclos

Martin Duclos — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:08:15 +0000

Works Well!

Added a lockfile variable to be able to handle something like prog=”/opt/subversion/bin/svnserve-daemon” to go along with svn+ssh

By: Andreas Rückert

Andreas Rückert — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:00:54 +0000

Hi!

Thanks for your great init-script. Unfortunately, it caused some problems on my debian server.
‘success’ and ‘failure’ don’t seem to exist.
I also ran into the awk problem and replace this code with some bash code:

obtainpid() {
pidstr=`pgrep $prog`
IFS=” ”
pidarray=($pidstr)
pidcount=${#pidarray}
if [ ! -r "$pidfile" ] && [ $pidcount -ge 2 ]; then
pid=${pidarray[0]}
echo $prog is already running and it was not started by the init script.
fi
}

Thanks again!

Ciao,
Andreas

By: IchBin

IchBin — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:41:45 +0000

Thanks for this script! I found you via a google search, and the script works great on my CentOS5 server.

By: S H Mohanjith

S H Mohanjith — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:03:41 +0000

Thanks for pointing out. I’ll post a fixed version.

By: dandin1

dandin1 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:54:32 +0000

Like others, I got “awk: fatal: attempt to use array `a’ in a scalar context”. According to http://objectmix.com/awk/361598-gawk-length-array-question.html , it is a bug in awk that has now been fixed. A work around is to replace “length” by “asort”, which also returns the length of an array.

By: emostoyanov

emostoyanov — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:25:00 +0000

Great, helped me on the spot! Thanks a ton Mohanjith’s. My system – CentOS 5.2, svnserve, version 1.4.2 (r22196) compiled Mar 14 2007, 20:55:55

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:15:00 +0000

dave, I had the same problem – it was because an old copy of svnserve was in my /usr/bin directory. I deleted that and linked it to the one built in /usr/local/bin and the problem went away.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:42:00 +0000

Excellent post. Your instructions worked perfectly for me in Fedora 8. Minor nitpick though, the chkconfig command is actually:

/sbin/chkconfig --add svnserve

Also, please please please post your script ass a patch to the subversion package in Bugzilla so it'll get added to the standard repo. I *hate* having to manually hack things just to get basic functionality, even if it is simple. There's absolutely no reason why this init.d script shouldn't be installed alongside svnserve.

By: roamdave

roamdave — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:25:00 +0000

I tried to use this script and added the change that kevin suggested. But now I get “”invalid option: –pid-file” when I run start. I found that this is an option for daemon. But I cannot work out why it is a problem here. I’d like to start the process as the svn user too, not sure how to change the script to run the svnserve as svn user.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:05:00 +0000

Don,

I had the same experience. I just changed line 39 in obtainpid() to:

pidcount=`awk -v name="$pidstr" 'BEGIN{print split(name,a," ");}'`

By: Don

Don — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:58:00 +0000

Thanks for the script as our folks were looking for exactly this. We are using this on CentOS 4.5 and all went well until I used service to start svnserve. This is the result:

[root@newmicros init.d]# service svnserve start
awk: cmd. line:1: fatal: attempt to use array `a' in a scalar context
/etc/init.d/svnserve: line 40: [: -ge: unary operator expected
Starting Subversion Daemon (svnserve): [ OK ]

As you can see svn started and was verified with ps as running and having appropriate options. Any help?

thanks
don

By: mohanjith

mohanjith — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:58:00 +0000

Thanks for noticing the issue. I have a link to download the script as plain text in the blog post itself.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:17:00 +0000

if [ ! -r "$pidfile" ] && [ $pidcount -ge 2 ];

This line (40) contains a typo, should have just the && not the HTML amp;amp; bits.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:00:00 +0000

Thanks for the script, got it running on my centos 5 server.
Now back to coding

By: mohanjith

mohanjith — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 08:54:00 +0000

Thanks Raj for the suggestion.

By: Raj

Raj — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:37:00 +0000

Thanks for the script, Mohanjith. Works good.

One suggestion: the obtainpid did not get the pid on a RH Enterprise 5 machine for a svnserve that was not started with a pid-file option, and forcestop failed.

I can investigate later why obtainpid failed, but you might want to add a check in stop and forcestop to make sure you have a valid pid before trying to kill it.

-Raj