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NAME

       svnserve - Server for the 'svn' repository access method

SYNOPSIS

       svnserve [options]

DESCRIPTION

       svnserve  allows  access to Subversion repositories using the svn network protocol.  It can both run as a
       standalone server process, or it can run out of inetd.  You must choose a  mode  of  operation  when  you
       start svnserve.  The following options are recognized:

       -d, --daemon
            Causes  svnserve  to  run in daemon mode.  svnserve backgrounds itself and accepts and serves TCP/IP
            connections on the svn port (3690, by default).

       --listen-port=port
            Causes svnserve to listen on port when run in daemon mode.

       --listen-host=host
            Causes svnserve to listen on the interface specified by host, which may be either a hostname  or  an
            IP address.

       --foreground
            When  used  together with -d, this option causes svnserve to stay in the foreground.  This option is
            mainly useful for debugging.

       -i, --inetd
            Causes svnserve to use the stdin/stdout file descriptors, as is appropriate for a daemon running out
            of inetd.

       -h, --help
            Displays a usage summary and exits.

       --version
            Print svnserve's version and the repository filesystem back-end(s) a particular svnserve supports.

       -r root, --root=root
            Sets  the  virtual  root  for repositories served by svnserve.  The pathname in URLs provided by the
            client will be interpreted relative to this root, and will not be allowed to escape this root.

       -R --read-only
            Force all write operations through this svnserve instance to  be  forbidden,  overriding  all  other
            access  policy configuration.  Do not use this option to set general repository access policy - that
            is what the conf/svnserve.conf repository configuration file is for.  This  option  should  be  used
            only  to  restrict  access  via  a certain method of invoking svnserve - for example, to allow write
            access via SSH, but not via a svnserve daemon, or to create a  restricted  SSH  key  which  is  only
            capable of read access.

       -t, --tunnel
            Causes  svnserve  to  run  in tunnel mode, which is just like the inetd mode of operation (serve one
            connection over stdin/stdout) except that the connection is considered to be pre-authenticated  with
            the  username  of  the  current uid.  This flag is selected by the client when running over a tunnel
            agent.

       --tunnel-user=username
            When combined with --tunnel, overrides the pre-authenticated username with  the  supplied  username.
            This  is  useful  in  combination  with the ssh authorized_key file's "command" directive to allow a
            single system account to be used by multiple committers, each having a distinct ssh identity.

       -T, --threads
            When running in daemon mode, causes svnserve to spawn  a  thread  instead  of  a  process  for  each
            connection.  The svnserve process still backgrounds itself at startup time.

       --config-file=filename
            When   specified,  svnserve  reads  filename  once  at  program  startup  and  caches  the  svnserve
            configuration.  The password and authorization  configurations  referenced  from  filename  will  be
            loaded  on each connection.  svnserve will not read any per-repository conf/svnserve.conf files when
            this option is used.  See the svnserve.conf(5) man page for details of  the  file  format  for  this
            option.

       --pid-file=filename
            When specified, svnserve will write its process ID to filename.

       -X, --listen-once
            Causes svnserve to accept one connection on the svn port, serve it, and exit.  This option is mainly
            useful for debugging.

       Unless the --config-file option was specified on the  command  line,  once  the  client  has  selected  a
       repository  by  transmitting  its  URL,  svnserve reads a file named conf/svnserve.conf in the repository
       directory to determine repository-specific settings such as what authentication database to use and  what
       authorization policies to apply.  See the svnserve.conf(5) man page for details of that file format.

SEE ALSO

       svnserve.conf(5)

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