[CalendarServer-users] How to install as system service?

[Stonewall Ballard]

I want to run CalendarServer on a non-server Leopard Mac. I've built  
it and it works fine when run from my account. I didn't see any  
instructions on installing it as a system service, but the run file  
has an installation switch, so I installed it to /, which puts parts  
in various, sensible places.

In the contrib directory, there is a launchd/calendarserver.plist  
file, which has different paths to the parts. I edited it and put it  
in the right place, but it didn't work. I couldn't find any log of why  
that was, so I tried running "sudo /usr/local/bin/caldavd -X" from a  
terminal window, and got an error: "/usr/local/bin/twistd: Wrong  
number of arguments". I can't tell from the caldavd or the twistd file  
why this might be. I get this same error when running caldavd from my  
build directory, but not if I run "run".

I hope that an installer (or a MacPort) will be available soon, but  
I'd like to know if this is supposed to work. The differences between  
the launchd plist and the run install paths make me worry that this is  
just incomplete.

I also noted that somewhere it says to use user & group "calendar",  
but I have not created those yet, if it matters. I'm just testing  
caldavd with sudo.

Can someone please tell me how to install and run CalendarServer as a  
system service?

Thanks very much.

  - Stoney

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