This appliance is terrible.

Root Access is not supplied. Emailing the authors doesnt recieve any response.

Running the machine and following the very first command to create a repository fails due to lack of permissions. Since no root access is provided you cannot use this applicance for what it was intended, createing SVN repositories. or for much for that matter.

Further it does not work correctly on ESX. The Eth0 interface becomes Eth1. Again without root this is impossible to change. We did manage to change it using the recoevery boot, but having to use recovery boot for anything which requires root is stupid.

All in all this applicance is a waste of time.

As it's built using Ubuntu, there is no root user/pwd!

I don't know this appliance This is Ubuntu Linux! Neither RHEL nor SLES other stuff like that.

Every administrative Task ist done bei using the 'sudo' command. e.g.

user@host~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
or
user@host~$ sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces
etc. etc.

You will we asked for a password, which is the password of the current user. The users that are allowed to do that are configured in '/etc/sudoers'. etc. etc.

Of course you can do a 'sudo passwd root' and use 'su' command.

I have a problem to get things into my Repository. Everytime, when I want to commit something I get the error: Authorization failed. I use Eclipse with the Subclipse-Plugin. I can't set my Username ad Password in Subclipse. Does anybody know how I can solve the problem?

I installed it an I'm having some issues. The host is RHEL4.4 with all current errata. VMWare Server and all consoles are build 29996. On the local console I see everything, but remotely I ony get a black window.

I have the Sourceforge EE appliance also (no gui), and it displays correctly on the remote console as does a Win2k3 guest I run. I built a plain vanilla ubuntu 6.10 server from an ISO and it works too.

I made sure my vmware user owns everything and also tried logging in as host root on the remote console. No difference.

Is the Young Technologies Subversion-Virtual-Machine using an unusual terminal mode or something? My host server only has a 1024x768 screen so I hate to do anything on it.

Thanks!
Frosty

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Frosty

I'm having issues myself with this one. In all fairness, I'm approaching this as a non-linux guy (VERY rusty Unix skills) who wants a simple, cost-effective (no $ for Windows Server) Subversion repository for .NET work. While I'm willing to get my hands dirty, I don't want to grope in the dark for fear of unintended consequences.

Right off the bat, I can't add users to the repository following the supplied instructions from because I get a permissions error. Odd that svnadmin doesn't have rights to edit the passwd file as shown in the directions.

Am I missing something simple?

Hello everyone.

I quite like this product. Using it to replace MS sourcesafe for .net using Ankh (for vis. studio) and Tortoise (for shell extension version controlling everything else, e.g. "My Documents" folder). Takes a while to get in to it - it not as limited as SS, so you have to know what you want to do before deploying it. Knowing that you have "sudo <<whatever>> ", then "svnpass" helps.

Only problem we're having is an error in WebSVN on line 340 of listings.php - not sure what's wrong, possibly we set it up wrong at the beginning? But the demo repo also doesn't work.

Does anyone know what we've done wrong and how to fix it? I have to present it as a solution soon and would like to impress them enough for them to think that virtualisation is a good idea and MS isn't the only cookie in the pot.

Cheers,

Warren