Setup svnserve using inetd

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There are several ways to run your own SVN repository server - and one of the most convenient ways to get one up and running is "svnserve".

Since I've been running svnserve on my server for several years now, I forgot how to set it up. I remembered that I've used inetd-config to start it, but browsing the web for HowTos pointed me to startup-scripts for svnserve directly. I was confused.

So I decided to write this one-line-howto in case someone else rather wants to use inetd.

1) Install subversion package
"svnserve" comes with the default subversion package, so just install the package "subversion" to get it:

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apt-get install subversion

2) Add the following line to /etc/inetd.conf:

svn stream tcp nowait svn /usr/bin/svnserve svnserve -i -r /path/to/your/svn/repository

3) Start(restart) inetd for the config to take effect:

/etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd restart

That's it!