Comments on: Running svnserve as a windows service: long filename problem

By: Cornel

Cornel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:44:33 +0000

There's no need to use environment variables. Inside binpath quotes, you must use ” instead of “.
Example:
SC create some_service start= auto binpath= “”C:Program FilesSomeServicePathSomeService.exe” -option” DisplayName= “Some Service”
For you, it's going to be
sc create svn_repos binpath= “”C:Program FilesSubversionbinsvnserve.exe” –service –root “D:Subversion Repository”" displayname= “Subversion Repository” depend= Tcpip
It's been a while since this post was created, but hope it'll help

By: Cornel

Cornel — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:44:33 +0000

By: ronaldwidha

ronaldwidha — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:57:00 +0000

Hi Grant,

That was what I first thought as well. Upon closer inspection svn_repos binpath argument expects the value to be enclosed in double quotes like so: "C:\DevSupport\Subversion\bin\svnserve.exe --service --root D:\Repository"

So when you have a long file name, you'd probably ended up with ""C:\some long file name\svnserve.exe" --service ...".

Which what you might guess, won't work.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:18:00 +0000

You need to enclose the long file name in escaped-double-quotes.