sudo svnserve -d sudo svnserve -d -r /var/svn-repos

There is no init script for the server svnserve. To start it use...

Use the -r option to mask the root repository directory. Since my root repository is /var/svn-repos it would look like...

Now when one connects to the server the root repository path is not needed. i.e. /var/svn-repos/lds-base would just be /