I can't start the SVN server at the boot on CentOS

[decola]

Hi all,
I have just installed an SVN server on a CentOS 5.4 machine.

The repository belongs to the user svnserve.svnserve

Everything works great when I start the server explicitly as root in this way:
sudo -u svnserve /usr/bin/svnserve -d -r /var/svn/


The next step was to start the SVN server automatically at the boot of the machine.

So I happened this to my /etc/rc.local file:
sudo -u svnserve /usr/bin/svnserve -d -r /var/svn/

After my addition the files /etc/rc.local looks like this:
touch /var/lock/subsys/local
sudo -u svnserve /usr/bin/svnserve -d -r /var/svn/

The first line gets executed. But the SVN server is not up after the boot.

Can you spot any problem? how can I debug that?

Thanks,
Dan

[chanduderoyal]

use su instead of using sudo, sudo is for super user .........

[decola]

chanduderoyal, thanks for your reply.

After your suggestion, I have tried with:
su svnserve -c '/usr/bin/svnserve -d -r /var/svn/'

But I got this:
This account is currently not available.

That is because I created the account svnserve this way:
useradd -g svnserve -s /sbin/nologin -M svnserve

I want to keep preventing the user svnserve from logging in to the machine.

What should I do?