Hi, I'm trying to get starting running a carddav server under Linux, but got stuck. I installed all prerequisites just fine (after a little fight with the run command, which -oh horrors- decided to completely bypass my package manager and -even more horrors- install things outside the calenderserver folder. What happend to the good old ./configure or setup.py scripts?) The ./run -I command does not seem to work: ./run -I /opt/calendarserver did * create a folder /opt/calendarserver/bin with a copy of all tools from /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin (huh?) * abort with an error rsync: change_dir "/usr/caldavd" failed: No such file or directory (2) (huh again?) So I decided to just go for it, create a file conf/carddavd-dev.plist and try: ./run -a This seems to exec the following: ./bin/carddavd -X -L -f ./conf/carddavd-dev.plist -P caldav -t Combined Which in turns seems to exec: python /usr/local/bin/twistd -n carddav -f ./conf/carddavd-dev.plist \ -o ProcessType=Combined -o ErrorLogEnabled=False This fails with a "ImportError: No module named opendirectory", which is evident: opendirectory is not available under Linux, and was disabled in conf file in the first place. It seems that the conf/cardavd-dev.plist file is never read anyway, since simply running /usr/local/bin/twistd Gives the exact same result. I'm totally new to twisted, so I turned on logging, which according to the twistd man page is: /usr/local/bin/twistd -l - This time, no ImportError, but rather: Failed to load application: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'twistd.tap' I presume that twisted searches for a *.tap, *.tax or *.tas file in the current directory, and executes that application description. However, I can not find any such file in the calendarserver directory (there is this calendarserver/tap folder though). However, I'm at loss why it behaves differently with logging on or off. Just to emphasize my noob status, let me ask the obvious question: how do I start the server and have it read the config file? Any help is highly appreciated. Thank, Freek