Stop/restart Subversion?

[aaronk]

So I installed and configured SVN according to this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=187739&highlight=eclipse+subversion) handy tutorial. But here's a crazy question:

I've got svnserve running as a daemon, now how to I stop it? I just want to restart the freaking thing without rebooting the whole server.

The Subversion website's FAQ says things like "Restart svnserve." Great. Thanks. That's so much help:p

[DrSturgeon]

Not too familiar with subversion, but there's probably a script to start and stop it in /etc/init.d. Try looking in there: maybe it's called svnserve?

sudo /etc/init.d/svnserve start
sudo /etc/init.d/svnserve stop
sudo /etc/init.d/svnserve restart

Otherwise, maybe svn has a control utility (like apache's apachectl). Try just typing svn and hitting tab a couple times and see what shows up.

[aaronk]

Yeah, that was the first thing I thought of, too. But no dice. I ended up just restarting the entire box. :roll: Thanks anyway, though.

[nagilum]

I'm not aware of a "proper" shutdown method either, but you can of course simply kill it (e.g. 'killall svnserve'), no need to restart your system.

[alskor]

so, is there a better way to restart subversion other than use "kill" command?
it does not look like "subversion restart" works.
I understand this relates to Subversion itself, not to Ubuntu. But still....

Thanks!