[CalendarServer-users] How to install as system service?
Stonewall Ballard
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Wed Nov 7 16:23:53 PST 2007
After much fussing about with this, I was unable to make any progress.
I did determine that the error message really means that there were
unrecognized options. The command exec'd by caldavd is:
python /usr/local/bin/twistd -n caldav
The python called is the one in /System/Library/Frameworks/... I
tried a bunch of other options, but they didn't help.
I'm going to run the copy in my user account until someone builds an
installer.
Thanks for your help!
- Stoney
On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Emil Lundberg wrote:
> Although I have yet to test this myself, I belive you're on the
> right track. Some advice:
>
> -> The place to put contrib/calendarserver.plist is in /Library/
> LaunchDaemons/
> To actually start the service, use 'sudo launchctl load -x /Library/
> LaunchDaemons/calendarserver.plist'
> This sets the Disabled key to </false> AND loads the service. See
> 'man launchctl' for further info.
>
> -> The './run -i' does not seem to copy the conf/caldavd.plist to
> the default system location (nor any other conf files).
> Try 'cp conf/caldavd-test.plist /etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist' and
> modify it to suit you needs.
> If you want this plist in a different location, add this to
> ProgramArguments: <string>-f /path/to/caldavd.plist</string
>
> -> Running as a non-root user is good security practice. There seems
> to be two ways of doing this; one is to add the '-u' and '-g'
> ProgramArguments to calenderserver.plist, and another is using the
> UserName/GroupName keys to caldavd.plist. The latter is used in iCS,
> yielding a master twistd process owned by root, and the rest owned
> by the user specified. Make sure you create the user first.
>
> -> As you said, use 'sudo /usr/local/bin/caldavd -X [ -f
> <configfile ]' for debugging. The error message you see is twistd
> complaining about (lack of?) options, if you echo the last line in /
> usr/local/bin/caldavd (it's just a shell script), you can see what
> it tries to do, like so:
>
> echo "${python} ${twistdpath} ${daemonize} ${username} ${groupname} $
> {profile} ${plugin_name} ${configfile} ${service_type}"
>
> This should yield something like:
>
> (iCS system service):
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/
> Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python /usr/share/caldavd/bin/twistd -n
> caldav
>
> (DCS stand-alone):
> /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Resources/
> Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python /Install/DCS-1.0/Twisted/bin/twistd
> caldav -f /Install/DCS-1.0/CalendarServer-1.0/conf/caldavd-dev.plist
> -o ProcessType=Combined
>
>
> Any improvement?
>
>
> /Emil
>
> 6 nov 2007 kl. 19.48 skrev 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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>> Stonewall Ballard
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>>
>>
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