Starting Subversion on startup

[ferrisb]

I've got subversion running on my mac, and it's been working great. I've been using the svnserve app to access my repositories, however, everytime I've had to restart my mac, I have to restart svnserve manually.

How can I make it so that svnserve launches automatically at startup? I tried following the method mentioned here:

http://carlsbadcubes.com/blog/software/

But it doesn't make to much sense to me as to what to do. I put that .plist file in the folder mentioned, but svnserve still wouldn't start. Can anyone help me out here?

Thanks!

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

Have you tried going to your account settings (in system preferences) and clicking on the login items tab?

 

[ferrisb]

I looked at that, however, svnserve is started via the command line, and I need to pass a few parameters to it. Can I do that from the login items tab?

(svnserve -d -r /path/to/repo/ for example)

 

[panphage]

You could pass it arguments by making an applescript to do it, I'll see if I can find the instruction page I used later. But what you really should do is make a startupitem. That way it starts every time the computer starts. Look in /System/Library/StartupItems for examples. I put mine in /Library/StartupItems, I don't know what the "proper" hierarchy is here.

EDIT: http://www.osxfaq.com/Tutorials/LearningCenter/HowTo/Startup/index.ws
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