Error svn: Can't create directory in Subversion SVN

I created a respository in svn by doing the following:
svnadmin create clientconnector

But when I tried to connect and create the infrastructure (branches, tags, trunk), I got the following error:


I knew that I need to check the permissions of my connections. Now, I'm using Apache to handle all my repository permissions.

This can be found in the following section:
/etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf



Where all my user's information is stored in the /etc/svn-auth-conf file.

When I checked the directory for my repositories: /data/svn I noticed the following:


The problem is the group. By doing the following I was able to solved the problem with the privileges.

chown -R apache.apache clientconnector

You shouldn't have to restart your apache server, but in case that this doesn't work, restart apache by doing: service httpd restart

Unix Admin Mantra - "Only the paranoid survives"

I am not a Unix admin. I had to pick it up due to the fact that I'm working on a small start-up company. I quickly learned that the mantra of Andrew Grove from Intell, "Only the paranoid survives" best fit for this type of job. System admins need to be ahead of the curve. The other day, I went to restart the only windowns server that I have and noticed an error in one of my Unix servers. The message was that I had a bad memory chip. How can I check if everything is OK, specially since my server are in a data center? Then I found out from Linux Journal that I can use SNMP and Nagios to get this type of monitoring. I will be playing with it along as with Ruby for the next couple of weeks. I hope to get status of memory modules, fans, and power supplies in each of my servers.

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a network protocol designed for monitoring network-attached devices. It uses OIDs (Object IDentifiers) for defining the information,

known as MIBs (Management Information Base), that can be monitored. The design is extensible, so vendors can define their own items to be monitored