Subversion and FreeBSD permission problems

[Mark G.]

David Kelly wrote:
> 
> On Mar 23, 2008, at 11:01 AM, Darrell Blake wrote:
>> If I move into a temp directory and do "svn checkout
>> file:///usr/local/svn/repository/TestProject" it works fine but if I
>> do "svn svn://127.0.0.1/TestProject" I get an error stating "svn:
>> Can't connect to host '127.0.0.1': Connection refused".
>>
>> Also, if I try and use TortoiseSVN to browse the repository externally
>> I get an error stating "Error * Can't connect to host '192.168.0.10':
>> No connection could be made because the  target machine actively
>> refused it."

What does the output of `sockstat -4` look like?  It should
list the SVN server's listening port.

> 
> 
> I suggest using svn+ssh: rather than svn:
> 
> Then so long as you can ssh into the machine you can do svn.
> 

Here is a short paper I wrote about SVN over SSH on FreeBSD.

https://www.giovannetti.ca/bsd/SubversionOnFreeBSDWithSSH.pdf

Mark