ubuntu as server

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 09/12/05, alain.muls at telenet.be <alain.muls at telenet.be> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I want to use Ubuntu as a server for document sharing and for subversion.
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>       * I want to do document sharing using iFolder, I suppose this is the way to go when I and my colleague want to share documents. I did not find a debian package for the iFolder server or the client, so I downloaded on the server the SimpleServer iFolder source code which I compiled. When starting the SimpleServer I encountered 2 problems: (a) running as normal user, I did not have permission to go into the /home/user/.local directory. This was easily solved by changing the ownership form root to user. But I asked the question, should I run this service as root or as user, and how to start at boot automagically this service?. (b) when launching the SimpleServer I now get the error that there is no port available. On what port does the simpleserver connect and how to enable this at boottime
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>       * subversion was installed using apt-get with no problem, but how do I configure it? I can only find info about doing this through Apache, but this is not the way I want it to be. I want subversion to keep its repositories in a file structure instead of the Berkeley DB and I want to use this service without Apache.

subversion works using Berkeley DB for the files. There *isn't*
another option. (Or, rather, i think you can use another database
backend.) Maybe you just want to rsync the files?


-Eamonn