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Newbie needs some help with configuration
by Max Bobzien 25 Jul '09

25 Jul '09

Hi, I have tried to setup the server on my local mac and make it available for other users via internet. I did the following things: - installed the server - configured the accounts-test.xml and added the additional accounts - set up iCal to connect to the server Until this point, everything seems to work, but when I create a new entry and want to check the availability of another user or send an event to another user, it is only created in my calender but the other user does not get informed about anything. Is there anything I totally misunderstand with all this or did I simply something wrong? :) Thank for any advise! Max

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can't import har2009 calendar
by Jelle de Jong 24 Jul '09

24 Jul '09

Hi all, I am trying to import the har2009 ics calendar in my debian darwin calender server account via iceowl program but it generates the following errors: 2009-07-24 11:43:21+0200 [-] [caldav-8443] [-] '"In transformToNative, unhandled exception: <type \'exceptions.ValueError\'>: mandatory DTSTART not found"' https://har2009.org/program/schedule.en.ics Could somebody please help me and maybe take a look what the actual problems is here? Its for an demonstration system so its kind of important for me that it works :D Thanks in advance, Jelle de Jong

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Mulberry and DCS
by Markus Stürmer 15 Jul '09

15 Jul '09

I am trying to get Mulberry (4.0.8 MacOS X) to work with DCS (SVN revision 4453). I tried to follow the instructions at the DCS web site, but it seems Mulberry has problems with my self-signed SSL certificate. There is no error message, but it also does not query a password. After switching to insecure HTTP for tests, I could enter the password, but retrieving the calendar list failed with the error message: "Could not list calendars:Unauthorized" "Account: <account name>" I also tried switching from Digest-MD5 to cleartext (of course in Mulberry AND DCS), but no change. BTW, get the same response if I enter an invalid password (but it is correct, I tried it quite a lot of times). Did anyone get this combination working (recent Mulberry + DCS)? Are certain configuration options causing trouble, like preventing anonymous directory listings? Best regards, Markus

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Building for Mac OS X client
by Steve Burling 14 Jul '09

14 Jul '09

In hopes that this saves someone else some trouble... I've been running CalendarServer in "developer" mode for about a year, but I recently moved my server to a shiny new Mac Mini, and decided it was time to do this "right", as directed in the "run" script. Here, as best as I could keep track as I was doing it, is what I ended up doing to get this working. This is much tided up -- there were a lot of fits and starts while I was actually figuring things out. (Some of these changes were because I wanted to run the server as the calendar user, which doesn't have rights to write to /var/run, so I had to move some files down a level.) # A place to build the server... mkdir /usr/local/caldavd cd /usr/local/caldavd # Check out the sources, see <http://trac.calendarserver.org/wiki/Repository> for the svn command # Build the server cd /usr/local/caldavd/CalendarServer ./run -s # Making the installation (below) doesn't copy memcached to /usr/local/bin, # apparently assuming it can be found via the PATH, but that didn't work # for me, so... cp /usr/local/caldavd/memcached-1.2.6/memcached /usr/local/bin # Make required changes to twistedcaldav/stdconfig.py -- see the notes # at the end of this document, which detail the steps I went through to # ultimately arrive at these changes. # In particular: # change references to /var/run/caldavd.xxx to /var/run/caldavd/caldavd.xxx # change references to /usr/share/caldavd/bin to /usr/local/bin, since # that's where other things get installed # update the entry for memcached so that it has the full path: # /usr/local/bin/memcached # Make the instalation ./run -i /tmp/caldavd cd /tmp/caldavd sudo chown -R calendar:calendar . sudo pax -pe -rvw . / # Move caldavd.plist to a more sensible (to me!) place mkdir /etc/caldavd mv System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/caldavd/caldavd.plist /etc/caldavd # Get sample accounts.xml and sudoers.xml cp /usr/local/caldavd/CalendarServer/conf/auth/accounts-test.xml /etc/caldavd/accounts.xml cp /usr/local/caldavd/CalendarServer/conf/sudoers.plist /etc/caldavd chown -R calendar:calendar /etc/caldavd chmod g+s /etc/caldavd chmod -R g+w /etc/caldavd* # Edit caldavd.plist, accounts.xml and sudoers.plist as appropriate. # The changes to caldavd.plist were: # ports for HTTP and HTTPS, and enabling HTTPS # Adding the location of the server key and certificate (I made a self-signed cert) # changing bare references to /var/run to /var/run/caldavd # changing the usergroup from daemon:daemon to calendar:calendar # Pruned the heck out of accounts.xml # Left sudoers.plist unchanged # Make required directories mkdir /Library/CalendarServer chown calendar:calendar /Library/CalendarServer chmod g+ws /Library/CalendarServer mkdir /var/run/caldavd chown calendar:calendar /var/run/caldavd chmod g+ws /var/run/caldavd mkdir /var/log/caldavd chown calendar:calendar /var/log/caldavd chmod g+ws /var/log/caldavd # Try starting the server. Check /var/log/caldavd/error.log for problems. # Rinse and repeat. sudo -u calendar /usr/local/bin/caldavd -f /etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist # Notes # # The first problem was that for some reason, we ended up in /usr/local/caldavd/CalendarServer/calendarserver/tap/caldav.py, which gets config info from /usr/local/caldavd/CalendarServer/twistedcaldav/stdconfig.py, which has bad references to files in /var/run, rather than /var/run/caldavd. Try fixing those. # It turns out that if you run /usr/local/bin/caldavd with cwd=/, then we more properlly ended up in /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/calendarserver/tap/caldav.py, which (presumably) gets config info from /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/twistedcaldav/stdconfig.py, which still has bad references to files in /var/run, rather than /var/run/caldavd. Try fixing those. # /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages//twistedcaldav/stdconfig.py has references to /usr/share/caldavd/bin. Change those to /usr/local/bin, since that's where things get installed. # /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/twisted/internet/process.py at line 442 does an os.execvpe call that results in a "No such file or directory" error, with no notation about the file name. Add some debugging code just before line 395 to print out the value of the 'executable' variable, to try to chase this down. (Actually, I subsequently discovered that Ithink there was something in the log that had the missing file name, so that change was unnecessary. Oh, well.) # Looks like it's memcached, so copied binary from /usr/local/caldavd/memcached-1.2.6/memcached to /usr/local/bin, and updated reference in twistedcaldav/stdconfig.py to include path. # Remove debugging code from /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/twisted/internet/process.py # Ultimately, all the problems seemed to be with stdconfig.py, so I added the step early in the process above to make these changes before doing the install. I also made a launchd file to start the server (and keep it running). Let me know if you'd like a copy. -- Steve Burling <mailto:srb@umich.edu> University of Michigan, ICPSR Voice: +1 734 615.3779 330 Packard Street FAX: +1 734 647.8700 Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2910

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twistedcaldav.config.ConfigurationError
by Linc Davis 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

I did a checkout earlier today and a deployment install with 'run -i' as instructed in the run script. The only change I made to caldavd.plist was to change the HTTP port from 80 to 8008 -- a port not otherwise in use. When I try to start the server I get this: # caldavd -X -R caldav_kqueue exec python /usr/bin/twistd --reactor=caldav_kqueue -n caldav -o Twisted/reactor=caldav_kqueue /Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/calendarserver/tap/caldav.py:48: 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. from twisted.scripts.mktap import getid Removing stale pidfile /var/run/caldavd.pid 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] Log opened. 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] twistd 8.2.0 (/System/Library/Frameworks/ Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/ Python 2.5.1) starting up. 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] reactor class: kqreactor.KQueueReactor. 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] [calendarserver.tap.caldav.CalDAVServiceMaker#warn] Deleting stale socket file (not accepting connections): /var/run/caldavd.sock 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] [calendarserver.tap.caldav.CalDAVServiceMaker#warn] Deleting stale socket file (not accepting connections): /var/run/caldavd-stats.sock 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] twistedcaldav.accesslog.AMPLoggingFactory starting on "'/var/run/caldavd.sock'" 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] calendarserver.tap.caldav.CalDAVStatisticsServer starting on "'/var/ run/caldavd-stats.sock'" 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] Traceback (most recent call last): 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] File "/usr/bin/twistd", line 21, in <module> 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] run() 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 27, in run 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] app.run(runApp, ServerOptions) 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ twisted/application/app.py", line 694, in run 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] runApp(config) 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 23, in runApp 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] _SomeApplicationRunner(config).run() 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ twisted/application/app.py", line 427, in run 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] self.postApplication() 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ twisted/scripts/_twistd_unix.py", line 206, in postApplication 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] self.startApplication(self.application) 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ twisted/scripts/_twistd_unix.py", line 320, in startApplication 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] app.startApplication(application, not self.config['no_save']) 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ twisted/application/app.py", line 714, in startApplication 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] service.IService(application).startService() 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ twisted/application/service.py", line 278, in startService 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] service.startService() 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ twisted/application/service.py", line 278, in startService 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] service.startService() 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ calendarserver/tap/caldav.py", line 1321, in startService 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] processObject.getName(), 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/ calendarserver/tap/caldav.py", line 1227, in getName 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] "Can't create TwistdSlaveProcess without a TCP Port" 2009-07-13 14:08:08-0700 [-] twistedcaldav.config.ConfigurationError: Can't create TwistdSlaveProcess without a TCP Port # I've tried various changes to the config file with no success. The development install works as expected. Thanks for any suggestions. Linc Davis

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Re: [CalendarServer-users] Running CalendarServer on CentOS 4.7
by Friedrich Clausen 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:47 PM, B-Lebt<info(a)b-lebt.de> wrote: > Hello Friedrich, > > > i just read the run-script fast and i'm pretty new to the calendar-server > overall. > > It seems that the twisted-module will be installed in every case (but it > looks like there exists an exception..) > while the other modules (f.e. sqlite, pydirector, etc..) are getting > installed if they're not importable from python. > > It looks like that after resolving the dependencies the calendarserver > itself gets installed as a python-module. > > There's also a code-part i just can't say exactly what it does (because i > haven't written shell-scripts till now) but it looks like that you can > except parts to get installed (like twisted) if you use the -n parameter > followed by the module-name. Well i didn't try that and the code-part i saw > is: > > if [ -n "${install}" ]; then [Line 394 - py_install-function - run-script] > > so it might be usable like "./run -n twisted" - but i give no warranty about > that.. :-) > > another workaround coud be that you comment out the parts you don't need, > after the 535 in the run-script.. > > I would be interested in your achievements, even if it fails.. Thanks for the info! I will try these things out and give my feedback to the list. Cheers, Fred. > > Many greetings, > > > Florian > > > > > Am 13.07.2009 um 17:50 schrieb Friedrich Clausen: > >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Tanakorn >> Leesatapornwongsa<tanakorn.lsv(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> You installed with "-i" option but I think it must be "-s", isn't it? >> >> I tried the "-s" option eg. "./run -s -i /tmp/cal" but the results are >> exactly the same. I would like to install CalendarServer without it >> trying to download dependencies but there does not seem to be an >> option for that except "-n" but using "-n" does not change anything. >> >> Any further hints? Thanks! >> >> Fred. >> >>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Friedrich Clausen <fred(a)derf.nl> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> I have installed a newer Python (2.6.2) than CentOS 4 offers in a >>>> custom prefix so that I can start installing CalendarServer. I then >>>> adjusted my PATH for my user so that the correct Python is used when I >>>> install CalendarServer. >>>> >>>> I then manually installed all the dependencies listed in the README >>>> but the run script still wants to download and install various >>>> components that I have already installed (Twisted for example). It >>>> also tries to check out non-existend SVN repos - for example the error >>>> below - >>>> >>>> Checking out vObject... >>>> svn: URL 'http://svn.osafoundation.org/vobject/trunk@193' doesn't exist >>>> >>>> I am running the "run" script with the "-i" option in order to install >>>> CalendarServer is a particular location. >>>> >>>> Any hints on how to install CalendarServer correctly will be much >>>> appreciated! >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Fred. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> calendarserver-users mailing list >>>> calendarserver-users(a)lists.macosforge.org >>>> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/calendarserver-users >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> calendarserver-users mailing list >> calendarserver-users(a)lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/calendarserver-users > >

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Re: [CalendarServer-users] Running CalendarServer on CentOS 4.7
by Friedrich Clausen 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Tanakorn Leesatapornwongsa<tanakorn.lsv(a)gmail.com> wrote: > You installed with "-i" option but I think it must be "-s", isn't it? I tried the "-s" option eg. "./run -s -i /tmp/cal" but the results are exactly the same. I would like to install CalendarServer without it trying to download dependencies but there does not seem to be an option for that except "-n" but using "-n" does not change anything. Any further hints? Thanks! Fred. > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Friedrich Clausen <fred(a)derf.nl> wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I have installed a newer Python (2.6.2) than CentOS 4 offers in a >> custom prefix so that I can start installing CalendarServer. I then >> adjusted my PATH for my user so that the correct Python is used when I >> install CalendarServer. >> >> I then manually installed all the dependencies listed in the README >> but the run script still wants to download and install various >> components that I have already installed (Twisted for example). It >> also tries to check out non-existend SVN repos - for example the error >> below - >> >> Checking out vObject... >> svn: URL 'http://svn.osafoundation.org/vobject/trunk@193' doesn't exist >> >> I am running the "run" script with the "-i" option in order to install >> CalendarServer is a particular location. >> >> Any hints on how to install CalendarServer correctly will be much >> appreciated! >> >> Thanks, >> >> Fred. >> _______________________________________________ >> calendarserver-users mailing list >> calendarserver-users(a)lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/calendarserver-users > >

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Running CalendarServer on CentOS 4.7
by Friedrich Clausen 13 Jul '09

13 Jul '09

Hi All, I have installed a newer Python (2.6.2) than CentOS 4 offers in a custom prefix so that I can start installing CalendarServer. I then adjusted my PATH for my user so that the correct Python is used when I install CalendarServer. I then manually installed all the dependencies listed in the README but the run script still wants to download and install various components that I have already installed (Twisted for example). It also tries to check out non-existend SVN repos - for example the error below - Checking out vObject... svn: URL 'http://svn.osafoundation.org/vobject/trunk@193' doesn't exist I am running the "run" script with the "-i" option in order to install CalendarServer is a particular location. Any hints on how to install CalendarServer correctly will be much appreciated! Thanks, Fred.

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ipv6
by Pim Zandbergen 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Just noticed that calendarserver refuses ipv6 connections. At least on the version that comes with Ubuntu 8.10. Is this something that has to be switched on somewhere, or is ipv6 support missing in twisted or calendarserver itself? Thanks, Pim

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