August 2010 - calendarserver-users - lists.macosforge.org

DCS Configuration Manual?
by Corey Head 25 Nov '10

25 Nov '10

Hello-- Looking through the archives and all over, the best thing I could find for help configuring the DCS is this: http://www.macworld.com/article/132736/caldavserver.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a3… It's a bit dated and has nothing about the CardDAV server now included with the CalDAV server. Is there anything out there that talks about how to configure these pieces? I need the CalDAV server's more advanced settings than discussed in the above article, like how to setup sending invites to others not on this server. Also, I would like to start on the CardDAV but see nothing out about that one and how to get started with it. I assumed some similarities between the configuration for it and the CalDAV, but haven't been able to initiate and connect to it yet. Any links to manuals, installation guides, etc. would be most appreciated! Thanks! Corey

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Re: [CalendarServer-users] invalid tokens and a missing setuptools
by Conrad Wasmer 31 Aug '10

31 Aug '10

Well, I figured out enough to get myself going and it seems worth posting this for sake of closing the loop. I had just installed python 2.7 and it seems that setuptools needs to be added to that package - it's not automatically in there. I was getting this error when I ran ./run Building dateutil... Traceback (most recent call last): File "./setup.py", line 7, in <module> from setuptools import setup ImportError: No module named setuptools Installing setuptools for 2.7 fixed the problem. Seems self-evident, but I don't play with python on a regular basis and had no living idea! cheers all - Conrad

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Re: [CalendarServer-users] invalid tokens and a missing setuptools
by Conrad Wasmer 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

In reading my own last note, I see that my original problem was likely because of some error in my caldavd-dev.plist file. Perhaps there's been a change in the structure of that, or I somehow managed to create an error of some sort by adding an invalid line. Either way, I can go back and fix that using the sample caldavd-test.plist as my model, if need be. The larger question for me now is how I get around the python dateutil build error. I have sought to resolve this in a number of ways, including setting up a whole new installations of CalendarServer in their own directories - both from trunk and the latest stable release, CalendarServer-2.4. In each case, when I get to this part of the run script, it fails. Is there another way to build DCS's dateutil so that it's already present and the run script can skip it? Or any other suggestions? I am running on mac os x 10.6.4 Thanks all! Conrad

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How to test the PubSub push notification feature?
by Stewart Adam 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hi, I have setup CalendarServer 2.4 on a Fedora 13 virtual machine along with a local XMPP server. The calendar server is working great, I have already tested it on iCal and an iPhone! I was wondering however if there was a test to see if the PubSub push feature was working correctly (this is the main reason I chose to use CalendarServer over other calendar servers). The last time I tried using CalDAV (with Sunbird & Apache) there was a problem where if users did not refresh the calendar before publishing, any other user's changes would be lost. The iPhone and iCal did not seem to have this problem - I could delete, edit or create events concurrently and changes would sync to both calendars however the changes were not instant, and in many cases I had to force refresh on iCal to see the changes made from the iPhone. Regards, Stewart

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invalid tokens and a missing setuptools module
by Conrad Wasmer 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Hello all - I suffered a setback today. I had to restart DCS and when I did, things went awry. I was getting the following error when using the "./run" script: Starting server... exec python /library/dcs/Twisted/bin/twistd -n caldav -f /library/dcs/calserver/conf/caldavd-dev.plist -o ProcessType=Combined Traceback (most recent call last): File "/library/dcs/Twisted/bin/twistd", line 19, in <module> run() File "/library/dcs/Twisted/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 27, in run app.run(runApp, ServerOptions) File "/library/dcs/Twisted/twisted/application/app.py", line 689, in run config.parseOptions() File "/library/dcs/Twisted/twisted/application/app.py", line 669, in parseOptions usage.Options.parseOptions(self, options) File "/library/dcs/Twisted/twisted/python/usage.py", line 231, in parseOptions self.subOptions.parseOptions(rest) File "/library/dcs/Twisted/twisted/python/usage.py", line 241, in parseOptions self.postOptions() File "/Library/DCS/CalServer/calendarserver/tap/caldav.py", line 228, in postOptions config.loadConfig(self["config"]) File "/Library/DCS/CalServer/twistedcaldav/config.py", line 668, in loadConfig configDict = parser.parse(open(configFile)) File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/plistlib.py", line 406, in parse parser.ParseFile(fileobj) xml.parsers.expat.ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 509, column 76 launchctl bsexec failed: No such file or directory I'd take suggestions on how to get that resolved... But first, given my inability to diagnose that on my own, I decided to check out the latest revisions to see if the problems I was experiencing had been addressed, but it seems I may be alone here. So, now, when running the setup script (./run -s), I get the following error in re: dateutil: Building dateutil... Traceback (most recent call last): File "./setup.py", line 7, in <module> from setuptools import setup ImportError: No module named setuptools I do not know where to look for the module "setuptools" or how to add it if necessary. Any ideas for how to remedy this error? I would greatly appreciate any ideas anyone can offer for either or both of these issues. Thanks much! Conrad

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Who did the debian packaging?
by Chris Cleeland 30 Aug '10

30 Aug '10

Did anybody on this list do the debian packaging of calendarserver 1.2? If so, please contact me. I haven't seen a package since that one, and would like to do an update. I might consider taking over as maintainer, but would like to talk to whoever did it. Thanks! -cj --- Chris Cleeland

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Running Server on Windows or Linux?
by Andrew Bobulsky 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

Hello List, I stumbled into CardDAV as likely being a way to share a real time contact list between multiple iPhone users, and this software looked like a good place to start. I have to admit that I find the website a little confusing, as installing or even acquiring the source took a lot of digging... Anyway, I couldn't find a requirements list and while it's obvious that the server will work on OS X, I don't have any OS X boxes available on my back end and was hoping to run this on Linux or Windows and if those are supported installation platforms for the project. If I want to use Linux, can I just install following the readme and be good to go? Is there a hope of running this on my Exchange server at some point? =) Thanks, Andrew Bobulsky

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Re: [CalendarServer-users] iCal can no longer see server's calendars
by John Lockwood 14 Aug '10

14 Aug '10

On 13 Aug 2010, at 09:58, Daniele Procida wrote: >* Until yesterday, my server worked perfectly well.*>* *>* I use one user, called home, which has a number of calendars.*>* *>* Yesterday they all disappeared from iCal. iCal can still connect, and create and find new calendars and events. This affects every machine I try to connect to the server with.*>* *>* I can see all the calendars at :8008/calendars/users/home/ on the server, and the events in them, but only ones I have created since yesterday are visible in iCal. I'd really love to get the old ones back!* I am pretty sure now that the problem is that xattr data has been lost (after a server problem), not just on the collections, but on the .ics files too. I've seen a workaround from Cyrus on how to deal with this: <http://lists.apple.com/archives/ical-server/2007/Nov/msg00036.html> but it hasn't worked for me. guess what. in CalendarServer/contrib/tools/ there is a tool called fix_calendar. Description: This utility will add xattrs to the specified directories and their contents to make them appear to be calendars and calendar resources when used with iCal Server. It can be used to fix xattrs lost as a result of restoring an iCal Server document root without properly preserving the xattrs. from the terminal you would run: > ./fix_calendar path-to-calendar and bam! fixed xattrs found this while browsing the code. :) -John Daniele -- Daniele Procida Web Officer Cardiff University School of Medicine Tel.: +44 29 2074 2144

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iCal can no longer see server's calendars
by Daniele Procida 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

Until yesterday, my server worked perfectly well. I use one user, called home, which has a number of calendars. Yesterday they all disappeared from iCal. iCal can still connect, and create and find new calendars and events. This affects every machine I try to connect to the server with. I can see all the calendars at :8008/calendars/users/home/ on the server, and the events in them, but only ones I have created since yesterday are visible in iCal. I'd really love to get the old ones back! Since I can see the data on the server it seems to me that a pointer to it has become corrupted. I can't see any obvious file permissions problems. If I run props in the runshell utility, I get a list of OK properties followed by: > Failed Properties: > {DAV:}acl: 401 > {DAV:}current-user-privilege-set: 401 I don't know if that is significant. Finally, I built the WebDAVBrowser utility to see if that would reveal anything more, but when I run it I get a message: > WebDAVBrowser Error > An unexpected error has occurred during execution of the main script > > NibLoaderError: Invalid NIB file [/Users/daniele/Desktop/CalDAVClientLibrary/dist/WebDAVBrowser.app/Contents/Resources/WebDAVBrowser.nib] I'd be most grateful for any tips on how to continue investigating this. Daniele -- Daniele Procida Web Officer Cardiff University School of Medicine Tel.: +44 29 2074 2144

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Good windows-based clients?
by Chris Cleeland 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

I've got an existing home deployment using an old (but stable and working sufficiently for my purposes!) version of caldavd. Clients are all either iCal or iPhone. Into the mix comes a windows machine now, but I'm having problems finding a reasonable client. Ideally, this client would have feature parity with iCal. If anybody has suggestions, please email off-list. I'm familiar with the list at clients.calconnect.org, but the last time I tried windows clients listed there they were underwhelming or simply didn't work. That was probably 6-8 months ago. I will summarize results. --- Chris Cleeland

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