On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 03:53:09PM -0700, Dean Schulze wrote: > I can't get the git daemon to start on Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit. I've followed > these instructions > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Git > > but nothing runs on port 9418. It's hard to tell anything because that page lists at least two distinct ways to make git-daemon serve requests.
First, it worth considering this question: do you really need to run git-daemon at all? The only task git-daemon does is providing *anonymous and read-only* access to a repository, so its only really useful for things like serving code of a free software project to a general public, and this task is anyway better handled with a dedicated specialized resource like github, google code, SF.net etc. Second, if you do really need git-daemon, I would pick one of these ways, in this order: 1) Use inetd/xinetd. I tried to run git-daemon under openbsd-inetd (which seems to be the default inetd implementation in Debian) and it worked OK. You appear to be in need to read some docs on what that inetd thing is upfront, that is, before copying and pasting some example from some wiki. When debugging an inetd service, look into /var/log/daemon.log for messages. 2) Install git-daemon-run package which seems to be happily borrowed by Ubuntu so there's a good chance it'll just work. > Do I have to have a 64-bit version of git for a 64-bit OS? In any case this has nothing to do with your problem as Git is a native package and supposedly you have the correct version as with any other package in the distro. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
