[CalendarServer-users] Installing CalendarServer Instructions

Sun Aug 9 09:46:12 PDT 2009

Hey,

I would like to support the idea of creating a wiki for the calendar  
service. Since I have gathered a little experience in setting up a  
wiki for my studies, maybe I can contribute that way. I can also offer  
to do the german translation of the instructions and maybe handle the  
coordination of the wiki project (sorry, at the moment I am writing my  
thesis in project management, so I see projects everywhere around me ;)

Regards,

Max

Am 07.08.2009 um 22:48 schrieb odinm:

> A wiki would rock.
>
> I'd be happy to donate enough to register a domain name and  
> contribute toward hosting for the wiki.  I could set those things up  
> myself, but it would probably be better if there was a group that  
> owned those resources so that one person couldn't hold the data  
> hostage some day in the future when a disagreement arises.
>
> Anyway, I'd be happy to contribute because my office benefits  
> greatly from having shared calendaring with DCS.  I'm no guru at it  
> though (I decided to use Debian Lenny as a platform because it's in  
> the repositories and my previous attempts at a startup script  
> failed), so while I'd like to contribute back in some manner, I am  
> cognizant of my limitations.  I can manage donations though.  That's  
> a snap.
>
> On Aug 7, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Scott Buchanan wrote:
>
>> I'm happy to contribute what I can but, while I have been a  
>> sysadmin, what I did was 'to get it to work' and not necessarily  
>> 'the right way'.  It would be helpful (I would say essential) to  
>> have one of the dev's involved at least as an editor.  I know they  
>> don't have the time beyond that.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Scott
>> On Aug 7, 2009, at 6:59 AM, Jeremy Paul Carroll wrote:
>>
>>> I second this... There are plenty of people out here trying to use  
>>> this - particularly on OS X Client edition - who aren't UNIX  
>>> Sysadmins and who need to be taken through the process step-by- 
>>> step with the assumption that their knowledge is basic. People  
>>> such as me!
>>>
>>> If someone can get some clear instructions with the above provisos  
>>> in mind, then I am more than happy to knock them into shape as a  
>>> definitive guide for OSX (I was a professional technical author  
>>> for more than ten years)...
>>>
>>> I think you'll find 90% of people using the calendar server are  
>>> doing so by using the "./run -d" development method, rather than  
>>> the correct implementation method (I haven't seen any instructions  
>>> anywhere that are any use as to how to do this). The "launchd" fix  
>>> doesn't work by the way...
>>>
>>> I'm sure that in the true spirit of Open Source we can get this  
>>> into shape...
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jeremy.
>>>
>>> On 7 Aug 2009, at 14:11, Scott Buchanan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there a Wiki or similar on which to find/contribute  
>>>> information about installation of Calendar Server.  It is  
>>>> definitely not an easy system to install, even on OS X.
>>>>
>>>> I've been running CalendarServer on 10.4 Server and 10.5 Client  
>>>> for about 2 years.  I recent had to upgrade to the latest release  
>>>> (2.3) on the 10.5.8 client to maintain compatibility with the  
>>>> iPhone 3.1  Here are a few issues I ran into for which I can find  
>>>> no instructions, or what I did  wrong which cause me to have to  
>>>> do the following after running ./run -i /.
>>>>
>>>> 1) the PYTHONPATH declared in the /usr/local/bin/caldavd was  
>>>> incorrect.  It was "Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/: 
>>>> $PYTHONPATH" instead of "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/: 
>>>> $PYTHONPATH" (note the missing slash at the beginning).  I  
>>>> remember this being a problem 2 years ago and is still there.
>>>>
>>>> 2) After correcting item 1 the server would still not launch and  
>>>> the errors showed that something was looking for /usr/share/ 
>>>> caldavd/bin/twistd.  I could not find where this was coming from  
>>>> so I solved this by 'ln -s /usr/local/bin /usr/share/caldavd'
>>>>
>>>> 3) The it still would not run.  Looking at the logs again it was  
>>>> looking for memcached which is not installed on 10.5 client.  I  
>>>> then downloaded and built memcached (and libevent which is  
>>>> required by memcached).
>>>>
>>>> Now things are running.  I did a bunch of other things with the  
>>>> log files locations/permissions which have changed (I think) but  
>>>> they may also have been due to the above items being wrong/missing.
>>>>
>>>> If there was  wiki/FAQ to which to post these that would be  
>>>> great.  If this exists can you point me to it?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Scott
>>>>
>>>>
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