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Re: Can I set up a GIT server w/o administration privileges on a Solaris machine?

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 5, 2009, 08:42 UTC
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Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> writes:
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> The default port of the git daemon is 9418. Unix systems usually don't
> require admin privileges to bind to port >1024. Maybe there's a
> firewall between you and the solaris box preventing you from
> connecting to such non-standard port? If you are sure there is no such
> thing, then simply fire up git-daemon and try to connect to it:
> 
> (assuming /path/to/repo.git is the git repository on the server)
>
> server$ git-daemon --export-all --verbose \
>   --base-path=/path/to/ /path/to/
> client$ git ls-remote git://<server>/repo.git

Use dashless form "git daemon" and not "git-daemon", otherwise it cannot be found with modern git installation.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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  1. stuartJun 4, 2009
  2. Tomas CarneckyJun 4, 2009
  3. Tomas CarneckyJun 4, 2009
  4. Jakub NarebskiJun 5, 2009

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