On 3/14/2023 8:52 AM, Felix Natter wrote:
Dear subversion community,
I have setup an ALMA Linux 8 (~RH8) Server, to which I will migrate some
repositories from a Ubuntu 20.04 system. During the migration phase I
would
like to disable the svn (svn+ssh://) service temporarily on the Ubuntu
20.04
system.
Is there any easy way to do it? I would like to avoid modifying conf/* for
all of the ~100 repositories, making deep changes to the system and
shutting down the ssh service (because I need to pull the dumps to the new
system).
Later, I would also like to have this "maintenance mode" on the target
ALMA8
system.
Do you have an idea?
You could move the "svnserve" command aside, that would block all
svn+ssh access, but that could break a lot of other things, depending on
your setup.
You could replace it with a shell wrapper which blocks access in certain
situations, something like this:
if [ "$SSH_CONNECTION" -a -f /etc/BLACKOUT ]; then cat /etc/BLACKOUT;
exit 1; fi
exec svnserve.real "$@"
So if they are coming in from SSH and you have a file called
/etc/BLACKOUT that file would be sent to users (downtime notice). You
might want to exempt the repository owner, so that any replication or
migration efforts still work.
note: that script is off the top of my head, poorly written and
untested; but it should give you the idea.
trent...
