December 2008 - calendarserver-users

Mac OS X Server
by Louis ROMERO 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

Hello, I have a 10.5.5 Mac OS X Server and the iCal Server is on. I have a problem, that happend twice, so I guess there is something. On time, the CPU was at 100%, taken by the User, but I couldn't see what was wrong in Activity Monitor or top, because the step of measures was to large : I found that there were several small Python processes that were launched and stopped constantly ! I tried to know where they came from. I stopped services one after another, and found out it was iCal : 10% CPU after that. Today, I had the same problem. The only thing I did today with iCal Servr was augmenting a LDAP record in the OpenDirectory. I just chose the calendar to be synced with. Where dos this come from ? Thanks, -- Louis Romero  Arcank

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debian, getting started
by Frank Hartmann 30 Dec '08

30 Dec '08

Hi, I have some problems using calendarserver. I thought of having a common appointment handling for 4 users and installed calendarserver. Unfortunately my setup is acting as a complex /dev/zero device and I am running against lots of walls trying to debug my setup. I am running debian/testing, using the prepackaged version calendarserver_1.2.dfsg-6_all.deb. I am a bit confused by the README.debian documentation, so followed the guideline there verbatim and created two files on my system: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- /etc/caldavd/sudoers.plist: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>users</key> <array>   <dict> <key>username</key> <string>superuser</string> <key>password</key> <string>superuser</string> </dict> </array> </dict> </plist> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- /etc/caldavd/accounts.xml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE accounts SYSTEM "accounts.dtd"> <accounts realm="Test Realm"> <user> <uid>admin</uid> <password>admin</password> <name>Super User</name> </user> <user> <uid>test</uid> <password>test</password> <name>Test_User</name> <cuaddr>mailto:testuser@example.com</cuaddr> </user> <group> <uid>users</uid> <password>users</password> <name>Users Group</name> <members> <member type="users">test</member> </members> </group> <location> <uid>mercury</uid> <password>mercury</password> <name>Mecury Conference Room, Building 1, 2nd Floor</name> <auto-schedule/> <proxies> <member type="users">test</member> </proxies> </location> </accounts> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There does not seem to be any description anywhere what role the superuser from sudoers.plist or admin from accounts.xml have. I have restarted the server and two logfiles were created: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- /var/log/caldavd/access.log ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Log opened - server start: [Sun Nov 16 16:02:20 2008]. 127.0.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2008:16:05:58 +0200] "PROPFIND /calendars/users/test_user/calendar/ HTTP/1.1" 404 151 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13pre) Gecko/20080916 Debian/unstable (Codename: sid) Iceowl/0.8" [43.9 ms] 127.0.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2008:16:06:13 +0200] "PUT /calendars/users/test_user/calendar/b152a194-62a0-48bc-96f1-30d6b65615a5.ics HTTP/1.1" 404 191 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13pre) Gecko/20080916 Debian/unstable (Codename: sid) Iceowl/0.8" [27.3 ms] 127.0.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2008:16:20:23 +0200] "PROPFIND /calendars/users/Test_user/calendar/ HTTP/1.1" 404 151 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13pre) Gecko/20080916 Debian/unstable (Codename: sid) Iceowl/0.8" [22.6 ms] 127.0.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2008:16:20:39 +0200] "PUT /calendars/users/Test_user/calendar/4a361f89-67f8-4856-bb45-b88c3c293e0d.ics HTTP/1.1" 404 191 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13pre) Gecko/20080916 Debian/unstable (Codename: sid) Iceowl/0.8" [81.9 ms] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- /var/log/caldavd/error.log ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2008-11-16 16:02:20+0100 [-] Log opened. 2008-11-16 16:02:20+0100 [-] twistd 8.1.0 (/usr/bin/python 2.5.2) starting up 2008-11-16 16:02:20+0100 [-] reactor class: <class 'twisted.internet.selectreactor.SelectReactor'> 2008-11-16 16:02:20+0100 [-] twistedcaldav.logging.AMPLoggingFactory starting on "'/var/run/caldavd/caldavd.socket'" 2008-11-16 16:02:20+0100 [-] [caldav-8008] /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/twisted/plugins/twisted_web2.py:22: DeprecationWarning: mktap and related support modules are deprecated as of Twisted 8.0. Use Twisted Application Plugins with the 'twistd' command directly, as described in 'Writing a Twisted Application Plugin for twistd' chapter of the Developer Guide. 2008-11-16 16:02:20+0100 [-] [caldav-8008] from twisted.scripts.mktap import _tapHelper 2008-11-16 16:02:21+0100 [-] [caldav-8008] [-] Log opened. 2008-11-16 16:02:21+0100 [-] [caldav-8008] [-] twistd 8.1.0 (/usr/bin/python 2.5.2) starting up 2008-11-16 16:02:21+0100 [-] [caldav-8008] [-] reactor class: <class 'twisted.internet.selectreactor.SelectReactor'> 2008-11-16 16:02:21+0100 [-] [caldav-8008] [-] twisted.web2.channel.http.HTTPFactory starting on 8008 2008-11-16 16:02:21+0100 [-] [caldav-8008] [-] Starting factory <twisted.web2.channel.http.HTTPFactory instance at 0x898380c> 2008-11-16 16:02:21+0100 [-] [caldav-8008] [-] set uid/gid 135/144 2008-11-16 16:02:21+0100 [twistedcaldav.logging.AMPLoggingFactory] AMPLoggingProtocol connection established (HOST:UNIXSocket('/var/run/caldavd/caldavd.socket') PEER:UNIXSocket('')) 2008-11-16 16:02:21+0100 [-] [caldav-8008] [-] AMP connection established (HOST:UNIXSocket(None) PEER:UNIXSocket('/var/run/caldavd/caldavd.socket')) 2008-11-16 16:05:58+0100 [-] [caldav-8008] [HTTPChannel,0,127.0.0.1] Provisioning file: <CalendarHomeProvisioningFile: /var/spool/caldavd/calendars> 2008-11-16 16:05:58+0100 [-] [caldav-8008] [HTTPChannel,0,127.0.0.1] Provisioning file: <CalendarHomeTypeProvisioningFile: /var/spool/caldavd/calendars/users> 2008-11-16 16:05:58+0100 [-] [caldav-8008] [HTTPChannel,0,127.0.0.1] Provisioning file: <CalendarHomeTypeProvisioningFile: /var/spool/caldavd/calendars/users> The entried from access.log is the result from using iceowl (debian name for sunbird) creating a nerw calendar and trying to make an entry. The location I specified there was http://localhost:8008/calendars/users/test_user/calendar/ and I tried http://localhost:8008/calendars/users/Test_user/calendar/ too. No password dialog appeared, no error messages. I added an appointment into my new calendar and it vanishes without any error message. I was not sure which side (server or client) was defective, so I searched this mailing list for some sort of known good command line client. I found: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/calendarserver-users/2008-June/000906… and tried then CalDAVClientLibrary revision 3384: fantasio:~/tmp/CalDAVClientLibrary$ ./runshell.py --server http://localhost:8008 --user=Test_user --pswd=test Ignoring error Ignoring error Traceback (most recent call last): File "./runshell.py", line 32, in <module> shell.runit() File "/mnt/hdd2/home/frank/tmp.nobackup/CalDAVClientLibrary/src/browser/shell.py", line 105, in runit shell = Shell(server, user, pswd, logging) File "/mnt/hdd2/home/frank/tmp.nobackup/CalDAVClientLibrary/src/browser/shell.py", line 43, in __init__ self.account = CalDAVAccount(server, ssl=ssl, user=self.user, pswd=self.pswd, root=paths, principal=paths, logging=logging) File "/mnt/hdd2/home/frank/tmp.nobackup/CalDAVClientLibrary/src/client/account.py", line 24, in __init__ self.principal = principalCache.getPrincipal(self.session, self.session.principalPath) File "/mnt/hdd2/home/frank/tmp.nobackup/CalDAVClientLibrary/src/client/principal.py", line 35, in getPrincipal self.cache[principal.principalURL.toString()] = principal AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'toString' At this point I decided to ask the mailing list. How do I debug this further? Any documents I should have found? kind regards Frank

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web frontend
by Frédéric Sidler 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

is there any web front end coming with DCS?

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Adding Events
by Josh Hoskins 23 Dec '08

23 Dec '08

Hey All, Not sure if anyone has asked this question before, I couldn't find reference to it browsing the archive or from searching online. Anyway, I have the calendar server up and running beautifully on a Ubuntu box with individual user accounts and shared group calendars working fine. What I'd like to do is allow events to be created through a web site via some PHP code. Browsing through the file system and the documentation I could find, I attempted to simply copy an ics event into the data directory for my user and see if it would show up on the next sync but it doesn't. As far as I can tell my manually copied ics event appears exactly the same file that the system would have created if I used a calendaring program to import it. Is there a file listing that tells the server what files exist in a user directory to send the user when they sync their calendar or am I completely off base with that line of thinking. Anyway, this is way outside my comfort zone and I'm grasping at straws, so if anyone has any insights or suggestions I'd appreciate them. Thanks in advance, Josh

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clarifying server-side from client-side behaviours
by George Michaelson 22 Dec '08

22 Dec '08

I'd like to flush out some distinctions between client side and server- side behaviours. Lets say I want to have the CalenderServer permit a group of people to share write privileges on each others calenders. If I want the server to permit this, I have to have a way to tell the server to let this happen. That points towards either an LDAP, an Open Directory, an XML or an apache groups/passwd or digest model of activity at client connect time. no? (Its interesting to ask if there is any UI, commandline, or web, which could allow me to control this outside of a calendering client. Is it only instantiated by groups existences in the Directory bound to the server? is it only activated if a CalDAV event happens driven by a client?) Client-side, I have to manage this in-client, at calender subscription time and also in the accounts management phase (at least, as instantiatedby iCal client) These two things are disjoint. The client has to have a way to say "give group permissions to my (sub)calender <x>" and the server has to have a way to enforce it, and they meet in the Directory: but only if the client and the server share the same directory. Obviously, the ideal is to share the directory. But the reality is, the directory is very probably not public, and also since its Open Directory, its not actually that reachable for all clients out there. This seems like a major mismatch. What have I misunderstood? Why is this so complicated? -Maybe, the only good answer is "because" but its a bit worrying for calender management. -G

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RPC and Memcached Port Conflict
by Daniel Durgin 18 Dec '08

18 Dec '08

Hello, What is the best way to change the port CalendarServer's memcached uses. It is conflicting with rpcbind which uses port 111. Thank you, Dan

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OS X Calendar Server launchd -- or alternatives
by John Berliner 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Our caldavd runs fine on a vanilla OS X machine (not server) via the run script, in standalone or daemon (-d) mode. Our last step is to get launchd to start caldav. I've created a .plist file in /Library/LaunchDaemons, based on the sample file supplied in trunk's /contrib directory and guidelines from Apple's site. But no amount of fiddling with the file seems to convince launchctl to actually get python+caldav started. My main question is: can the launchd plist file invoke the run script, or must it call the caldav daemon directly as in the sample file? (Trying to do so now causes path/environment errors, twisted can't find Zope, etc.) If I use the run script to do a system install, where is the canonical location for a base install location? (It looks like "run -i /" would work...most stuff going to /usr/local I think) Any success stories or alternatives here would be much appreciated. I know Apple wants everyone to move to launchd, so I'd prefer doing it this way rather than using a deprecated method (rc.local, for example). Thanks John Berliner Live Oak School

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Problem installing Calendar Server.
by Dennis Reherman 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hi folks, I have a problem installing / running the Calendar Server. It all seems to go ok except for when it reaches the Twisted checkout then it stops with the following message: Checking out Twisted... svn: Can't read from connection: Connection reset by peer First I thought it was because of CentOS which I was installing the server on but then I tried it on my MAC OS X Leopard client and got the same error. Can anyone help me with this. Thanks in advance, Dennis Reherman tranSmute bv, The Netherlands

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Assign Delegate/Proxy for User principal
by Corey Scobie 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

I am certain this subject has been beaten to death - but without a searchable archive I can't seem to zero in on the exact solution. I am running latest DCS with XML File Directory Service. I want to define user "B" and give them read/write access to the calendars in user A's store. I have tried defining a proxy on the user principal object but it appears that users cannot have proxies. Do I really need to define user A as a resource principal? Sorry if I am being thick here. I have researched hours on this subject and still do not have a definitive answer on defining delegates for a user using XML File Repository. Thanks in advance. Corey

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Lower case 'b' does not work in CalDAVClientLibrary/runshell.py
by Corey Scobie 15 Dec '08

15 Dec '08

Basically, just what the subject says. I cannot send a lower case "b" in the runshell.py script. I can't send it keyboard interactive, and it is parsed out of any string that I send to the terminal via cut and paste. Unfortunately, I have several principals with this character so I can't really operate on any of those objects via the client tools. Thoughts? Corey

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