svn+ssh on alternate ssh port

[Craig White]

Thanks for sticking through with me...I am a moron

I use different port numbers on the firewall to direct me to specific
servers and you know what my issue was as I now know...

checkout successful - YEAH ! ! !

now I can do my damage on my own space and not inflict angst on the
users in small doses but in big heaps  ;-)

Craig

On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 12:03 -0700, Mike Garfias wrote:
> try ssh -p222 user at host /usr/bin/svnserve
> see if that works
> 
> Craig White spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:07 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 10:44 -0700, Mike Garfias wrote:
> > > > >From the svnbook:
> > > > 
> > > > You'd think that the story of SSH tunneling would end here, but it
> > > > doesn't. Subversion allows you to create custom tunnel behaviors in your
> > > > run-time config file (see the section called Runtime Configuration Area). For
> > > > example, suppose you want to use RSH instead of SSH. In the [tunnels] section
> > > > of your config file, simply define it like this:
> > > > 
> > > > [tunnels]
> > > > rsh = rsh
> > > > And now, you can use this new tunnel definition by using a URL schema that
> > > > matches the name of your new variable: svn+rsh://host/path. When using the new
> > > > URL schema, the Subversion client will actually be running the command rsh
> > > > host svnserve -t behind the scenes. If you include a username in the URL (for
> > > > example, svn+rsh://username@host/path) the client will also include that in
> > > > its command (rsh username at host svnserve -t). But you can define new tunneling
> > > > schemes to be much more clever than that:
> > > > 
> > > > [tunnels]
> > > > joessh = $JOESSH /opt/alternate/ssh -p 29934
> > > > This example demonstrates a couple of things. First, it shows how to make the
> > > > Subversion client launch a very specific tunneling binary (the one located at
> > > > /opt/alternate/ssh) with specific options. In this case, accessing a
> > > > svn+joessh:// URL would invoke the particular SSH binary with -p 29934 as
> > > > argumentsuseful if you want the tunnel program to connect to a non-standard
> > > > port.
> > > ----
> > > OK - I saw that before I posted here and put the following in
> > > ~/.subversion/config
> > > 
> > > rsh = rsh
> > > craigssh = /usr/bin/ssh -p 222
> > > 
> > > and then running...
> > > 
> > > $ svn checkout svn+ssh://remote.host.com/home/craig/my-db_svn my-db_svn
> > > 
> > > takes a long time and then tells me...
> > > 
> > > ssh: connect to host remote.host.com port 22: Connection timed out
> > > svn: Connection closed unexpectedly
> > > 
> > > and this...
> > > 
> > > $ svn checkout craigssh://remote.host.com/home/craig/my-db_svn my-db_svn
> > > svn: Unrecognized URL scheme for
> > > 'craigssh://remote.host.com/home/craig/my-db_svn'
> > > 
> > > so I clearly don't understand what is going on...(the port and
> > > remote.host.com have been changed to protect the innocent)
> > > 
> > > there is no 'verbose' sort of option that I can find that helps me
> > > troubleshoot and there's a disconnect between the documentation and my
> > > brain that is making the usage less than obvious to me.
> > ----
> > OK - I got a lot further now and I'm still working on it...
> > 
> > dummy me needed to do svn checkout ssh+craigssh://...
> > 
> > after I connect though, I get an error...
> > 
> > sh: line 1: svnserve: command not found
> > svn: Connection closed unexpectedly
> > 
> > which is odd since 'which svnserve' returns '/usr/bin/svnserve'
> > 
> > but I am making progress now
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
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