On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Robert Dailey <<a href="mailto:rcdailey@gmail.com">rcdailey@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'm trying to get svnserve working on my Ubuntu Server machine. I basically want to run svnserve as a "service" (windows terminology?) so that I can continue to use my server as normal. I want it to run like apache2 runs, that is apache2 runs as a daemon and does not block me from doing other things. I notice that just running svnserve blocks, and I cannot run other commands, so I need alternatives. The SVN book does not help me figure out at all how to do what I want to do. I am also not sure how you tell xinetd what command to run on svnserve. For example, I will need to be able to specify which root directory svnserve is restricted to (I don't want to share my root). Help is very much appreciated. </blockquote></div> Update: I went here and followed the instructions: <a href="http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-09/1282.shtml">http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-09/1282.shtml</a> However, doing the following command does not work: svn ls svn://localhost/personal I get the following error message: svn: Can't connect to host 'localhost': Connection refused What could be causing this? Is there a log somewhere I can view?