Debian Bug report logs - #232584
/usr/bin/svnserve: Need an init.d script?

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Benedict Adamson <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: /usr/bin/svnserve: Need an init.d script?

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:45:59 +0000

Package: subversion
Version: 0.37.0-2
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/svnserve

For a serious development computer, the subversion server
should be started on boot. That is, there should be an
/etc/init.d script for starting svnserve
(apache2 is already started, of, course, for those that use WebDAV).
It would be nice if the Debian package included (at least)
a skeleton version of that script.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages subversion depends on:
ii  db4.2-util                  4.2.52-10    Berkeley v4.2 Database Utilities
ii  libapr0                     2.0.48-4     The Apache Portable Runtime
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdb4.2                    4.2.52-9     Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libexpat1                   1.95.6-6     XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libldap2                    2.1.23-1     OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libneon24                   0.24.4-3     An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7c-5     SSL shared libraries
ii  libsvn0                     0.37.0-2     Subversion shared libraries
ii  libxml2                     2.6.5-1      GNOME XML library
ii  patch                       2.5.9-1      Apply a diff file to an original
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-3    compression library - runtime

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Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: David Kimdon <[email protected]>

To: Benedict Adamson <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#232584: /usr/bin/svnserve: Need an init.d script?

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:53:17 +0100

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:45:59PM +0000, Benedict Adamson wrote:
> Package: subversion
> Version: 0.37.0-2
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /usr/bin/svnserve

My expectation is that in most cases svnserve is used on conjunction
with ssh or is started via inetd.  In that case no init.d script is
needed since the login session or inetd invokes svnserve.  Should
there be a commented entry in /etc/inetd.conf?  Would you consider
that enough? If you can describe a bit how you are using svnserve
we can probably find something that makes sense.

Thanks for the report,

-David
> 
> For a serious development computer, the subversion server
> should be started on boot. That is, there should be an
> /etc/init.d script for starting svnserve
> (apache2 is already started, of, course, for those that use WebDAV).
> It would be nice if the Debian package included (at least)
> a skeleton version of that script.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-k7
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
> 
> Versions of packages subversion depends on:
> ii  db4.2-util                  4.2.52-10    Berkeley v4.2 Database Utilities
> ii  libapr0                     2.0.48-4     The Apache Portable Runtime
> ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii  libdb4.2                    4.2.52-9     Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
> ii  libexpat1                   1.95.6-6     XML parsing C library - runtime li
> ii  libldap2                    2.1.23-1     OpenLDAP libraries
> ii  libneon24                   0.24.4-3     An HTTP and WebDAV client library
> ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7c-5     SSL shared libraries
> ii  libsvn0                     0.37.0-2     Subversion shared libraries
> ii  libxml2                     2.6.5-1      GNOME XML library
> ii  patch                       2.5.9-1      Apply a diff file to an original
> ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-3    compression library - runtime
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
> 

Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Benedict Adamson <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#232584: /usr/bin/svnserve: Need an init.d script?

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 14:28:56 +0000

David Kimdon wrote:
...
> My expectation is that in most cases svnserve is used on conjunction
> with ssh or is started via inetd.  In that case no init.d script is
> needed

I see what you mean. I didn't realise that was the intention.

...
> Should
> there be a commented entry in /etc/inetd.conf?

That would help. Perhaps an installation configuration question asking 
the user whether they want svnserve to be started by inetd would be better?

> If you can describe a bit how you are using svnserve
> we can probably find something that makes sense.

I've created my own /etc/init.d/svn and /etc/default/svnserve
I could post them if you want them.
However, svnserve seems rather lightweight so far, so inetd could be 
entirely adequate.

Message #20 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Pierre THIERRY <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#232584: /usr/bin/svnserve: Need an init.d script?

Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 16:49:18 +0200

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> My expectation is that in most cases svnserve is used on conjunction
> with ssh or is started via inetd

No, in the contrary, the SSH tunneling is more an option than the main
use case. Taken from the SVN website (http://subversion.tigris.org/) :

  "Subversion also offers a standalone server option using a custom
  protocol (not everyone wants to run Apache 2.x). The standalone server
  can run as an inetd service, or in daemon mode, and offers basic
  authentication and authorization. It can also be tunnelled over ssh."

> Should there be a commented entry in /etc/inetd.conf?

There should be a debconf question to invoke update-inetd.

But the package should also provide an init.d script, and debconf
questions about starting a standalone server or with inetd...

Alternatively,
le Moine Fou
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Message #29 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andreas Tille <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: Debian Quality Assurance Team <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: /usr/bin/svnserve: Need an init.d script?

Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 09:39:56 +0200 (CEST)

Hi,

I also stumbled upon this problem.  Any news since three years?
It is just unusual if Debian provides a package that contains
server features but there is not even a hint in the docs
(for instance README.Debian) how to start the server.  If I
personally would maintain such a package I would even split up
the package into two (perhaps three): subversion-client and
subversion-server (perhaps subversion-common).

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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From: Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Ping

Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:42:50 +0100

Hi,

Any updates?

Message #39 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jurgen DEBO <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Subversion init.d script debian

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:49:58 +0100

#!/bin/bash
#
#   /etc/rc.d/init.d/subversion
#
# Starts the Subversion Daemon
#
# chkconfig: 2345 90 10
# description: Subversion Daemon
# processname: svnserve
# pidfile: /var/lock/subsys/svnserve

source /lib/lsb/init-functions

[ -x /usr/bin/svnserve ] || exit 1

### Default variables
SYSCONFIG="/etc/sysconfig/subversion"

### Read configuration
[ -r "$SYSCONFIG" ] && source "$SYSCONFIG"

RETVAL=0
prog="svnserve"
desc="Subversion Daemon"
pidfile="/var/run/$prog.pid"

start() {
   echo -n $"Starting $desc ($prog): "
#   daemon $prog -d $OPTIONS --pid-file $pidfile
   /usr/bin/$prog -d $OPTIONS --pid-file $pidfile
   RETVAL=$?
   if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
     touch /var/lock/subsys/$prog
   fi
   echo
}

obtainpid() {
   pidstr=`pgrep $prog`
   pidcount=`awk -v name="$pidstr" 'BEGIN{split(name,a," "); print length(a)}'`
   if [ ! -r "$pidfile" ] && [ $pidcount -ge 2 ]; then	
	pid=`awk -v name="$pidstr" 'BEGIN{split(name,a," "); print a[1]}'`
	echo $prog is already running and it was not started by the init script.
   fi
}

stop() {
   echo -n $"Shutting down $desc ($prog): "
   if [ -r "$pidfile" ]; then
	pid=`cat $pidfile`
	kill -s 3 $pid
	RETVAL=$?
   else
	RETVAL=1
   fi
   [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && success || failure
   echo
   if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
     rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog
     rm -f $pidfile
   fi
   return $RETVAL
}

restart() {
	stop
	start
}

forcestop() {
   echo -n $"Shutting down $desc ($prog): "

   kill -s 3 $pid
   RETVAL=$?
   [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && success || failure
   echo
   if [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ]; then
     rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog
     rm -f $pidfile
   fi

   return $RETVAL
}

status() {
   if [ -r "$pidfile" ]; then
	pid=`cat $pidfile`
   fi
   if [ $pid ]; then
           echo "$prog (pid $pid) is running..."
   else
        echo "$prog is stopped"
   fi
}

obtainpid

case "$1" in
  start)
   start
   ;;
  stop)
   stop
   ;;
  restart)
   restart
   RETVAL=$?
   ;;
  condrestart)
   [ -e /var/lock/subsys/$prog ] && restart	
   RETVAL=$?
   ;;
  status)
   status
   ;;
  forcestop)
   forcestop
   ;;
  *)
   echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|forcestop|restart|condrestart|status}"
   RETVAL=1
esac

exit $RETVAL

Message #44 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jurgen DEBO <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Credits

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:59:50 +0100

Credits                                 :
http://mohanjith.net/blog/2007/07/svnserve-init-script.html
Tweaked some lines to debian: myself  ( http://www.purechocolates.com :-D )

Message #49 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jurgen DEBO <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Some corrections

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:38:44 +0100

You need to verify this script to make it perfect.

There are $OPTIONS in the start section.
I needed to put this line to make it work:

/usr/bin/$prog --daemon --pid-file $pidfile --root=/var/lib/svn/ $OPTIONS

So review this script before integration.
Maybe it should be tweaked to use standard, tunneling by ssh, with the
--tunnel option and allow read-only by direct access to the daemon
running at localhost.

Message #58 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marco Solieri <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: New Subversion init.d script

Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:04:12 +0100

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I have written a new version of a init.d script from the skeleton 
provided from  Jurgen DEBO. The initscript has a LSB compliant header 
and uses external options from a default configuration file 
(/etc/default).

It can be easily extended for setting up a default non-start policy, 
target to the medium user. I would like this script to be integrated in 
newer version of the package.

-- 
Marco Solieri
 aka SoujaK

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Message #63 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Roger Lynn <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#232584: /usr/bin/svnserve: Need an init.d script?

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:59:19 +0100

On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 16:49:18, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> > My expectation is that in most cases svnserve is used on conjunction
> > with ssh or is started via inetd
>
> No, in the contrary, the SSH tunneling is more an option than the main
> use case. Taken from the SVN website (http://subversion.tigris.org/)Â :
> 
>   "Subversion also offers a standalone server option using a custom
>   protocol (not everyone wants to run Apache 2.x). The standalone server
>   can run as an inetd service, or in daemon mode, and offers basic
>   authentication and authorization. It can also be tunnelled over ssh."

The documentation now at
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html#svn.serverconfig.choosing.recommendations
recommends against SSH tunnelling, saying:

"In general, the authors of this book recommend a vanilla svnserve
installation for small teams just trying to get started with a Subversion
server; it's the simplest to set up and has the fewest maintenance issues."

It goes on to recommend using svnserve with SASL if encryption is required,
instead of tunnelling with SSH which is "effectively the same as local users
accessing via file://", which in turn is strongly discouraged.

Roger

Message #68 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Roger Lynn <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: New Subversion init.d script

Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 09:31:31 +0100

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:04:12 +0100, Marco Solieri wrote:
> I have written a new version of a init.d script from the skeleton 
> provided from  Jurgen DEBO. The initscript has a LSB compliant header 
> and uses external options from a default configuration file 
> (/etc/default).

Thank you to both you and Jurgen for providing this.

However the script doesn't work with dash in Lenny, giving the following errors:

/etc/init.d/subversion: 21: source: not found
/etc/init.d/subversion: 24: source: not found
/etc/init.d/subversion: 47: Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting "}")

I have worked around this by telling it to use bash instead of sh.

Roger

Message #73 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Liu Yubao <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: new svnserve init.d script

Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:33:14 +0800

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Hi,

Share my svnserve init.d script.

First, I use user "svn" and group "svn" for svnserve:

[ "`getent group svn`" ] || addgroup --system svn

[ "`getent passwd svn`" ] || adduser --system --home /srv/svn \
    --shell /bin/false --ingroup svn --disabled-password \
    --disabled-login --gecos "svnserver server account" svn

Some file paths embedded in /etc/init.d/svnserve and can be adjusted in
/etc/default/svnserve:
repository root: /srv/svn
pid file:  /var/run/svnserve.pid
log file: /var/log/svnserve.log
config file: /srv/svn/svnserve.conf  (I used --config-file option
because I wouldn't like to manage */conf/svnserve.conf)

Files attached, hope that's useful for somebody:-)
/etc/init.d/svnserve
/etc/default/svnserve
/etc/logrotate.d/svnserve

The  /etc/init.d/svnserve is modified from /etc/init.d/skeleton.

Regards,
Yubao Liu

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Message #78 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Liu Yubao <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: new svnserve init.d script

Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:40:18 +0800

Sorry, forgot "delaycompress" below the "compress" line in
/etc/logrotate.d/svnserve,
because svnserve doesn't handle SIGHUP signal to reopen log file.

Regards,
Yubao Liu

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:33 AM, Liu Yubao <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Share my svnserve init.d script.
>
> First, I use user "svn" and group "svn" for svnserve:
>
> [ "`getent group svn`" ] || addgroup --system svn
>
> [ "`getent passwd svn`" ] || adduser --system --home /srv/svn \
>    --shell /bin/false --ingroup svn --disabled-password \
>    --disabled-login --gecos "svnserver server account" svn
>
> Some file paths embedded in /etc/init.d/svnserve and can be adjusted in
> /etc/default/svnserve:
> repository root: /srv/svn
> pid file:  /var/run/svnserve.pid
> log file: /var/log/svnserve.log
> config file: /srv/svn/svnserve.conf  (I used --config-file option
> because I wouldn't like to manage */conf/svnserve.conf)
>
> Files attached, hope that's useful for somebody:-)
> /etc/init.d/svnserve
> /etc/default/svnserve
> /etc/logrotate.d/svnserve
>
> The  /etc/init.d/svnserve is modified from /etc/init.d/skeleton.
>
> Regards,
> Yubao Liu

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From: Jason Lingohr <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2012 12:01:41 +1000

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Is it just be, or is this a glaring omission?

First reported in 2004 as well.

I see contributions have been made, but why hasn't it been incorporated?

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Message #88 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Roger Lynn <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: new svnserve init.d script

Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 01:37:13 +0000

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On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 05:33:14 +0800 Liu Yubao <[email protected]> wrote:
> Share my svnserve init.d script.
> 
> First, I use user "svn" and group "svn" for svnserve:
> 
> [ "`getent group svn`" ] || addgroup --system svn
> 
> [ "`getent passwd svn`" ] || adduser --system --home /srv/svn \
>     --shell /bin/false --ingroup svn --disabled-password \
>     --disabled-login --gecos "svnserver server account" svn
> 
> Some file paths embedded in /etc/init.d/svnserve and can be adjusted in
> /etc/default/svnserve:
> repository root: /srv/svn
> pid file:  /var/run/svnserve.pid
> log file: /var/log/svnserve.log
> config file: /srv/svn/svnserve.conf  (I used --config-file option
> because I wouldn't like to manage */conf/svnserve.conf)
> 
> Files attached, hope that's useful for somebody:-)
> /etc/init.d/svnserve
> /etc/default/svnserve
> /etc/logrotate.d/svnserve
> 
> The  /etc/init.d/svnserve is modified from /etc/init.d/skeleton.

Thank you for the script, which I have been successfully using for several
years.

I've just upgraded to Jessie and svnserve now appears to require write
access to the directory containing the PID file. Also PID files have moved
to /run. I have therefore modified the script to create /run/svnserve with
owner svn:svn and moved the PID file to /run/svnserve/svnserve.pid

Roger

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From: Roger Lynn <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: /usr/bin/svnserve: Need an init.d script?

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 22:34:03 +0100

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Package: subversion
Version: 1.14.1-3
Followup-For: Bug #232584
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

I've written a new version of the script for Bullseye, based on Yubao Liu's 
version and the template in init-d-script(5). Attached should be the 
/etc/init.d/svnserve script and /etc/defaults/svnserve file. I am not an 
expert on scripting, but it seems to work. It still needs Yubao Liu's 
logrotate file.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing-security
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages subversion depends on:
ii  libapr1      1.7.0-6
ii  libaprutil1  1.6.1-5
ii  libc6        2.31-11
ii  libsvn1      1.14.1-3

subversion recommends no packages.

Versions of packages subversion suggests:
ii  db5.3-util          5.3.28+dfsg1-0.8
pn  libapache2-mod-svn  <none>
ii  patch               2.7.6-7
ii  subversion-tools    1.14.1-3

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Message #128 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Roger Lynn <[email protected]>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: Bug#232584: /usr/bin/svnserve: Need an init.d script?

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:04:36 +0100

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On 06/04/2021 22:34, Roger Lynn wrote:
> I've written a new version of the script for Bullseye, based on Yubao Liu's
> version and the template in init-d-script(5). Attached should be the
> /etc/init.d/svnserve script and /etc/defaults/svnserve file. I am not an
> expert on scripting, but it seems to work. It still needs Yubao Liu's
> logrotate file.

And... that version didn't handle restarts properly. Here is a another 
attempt...

Regards,

Roger

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