Oh, I guess that's probably because 'pax' does not exist in linux, does it?

-dre

On Jan 24, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Larry Popiel wrote:

> No errors. What I understand is that pax is supposed to place the files in 
> the appropriate directories when it is run. The caldavd executable just tells 
> me it's not installed and to install it. not sure where everything is places 
> in the system. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jan 24, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Andre LaBranche <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jan 24, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>> 
>>> I have the trunk up and running in test mode configured and accessible from 
>>> iCal and iPhones. I  now want to put in in production.I created a dir in 
>>> /opt and followed the steps to download. When I run the ./run -i script it 
>>> appears to compile but when i run the caldavd executable it tells me that 
>>> is not installed. Am I missing something? I also tried release ver 2.4 and 
>>> fixed the dead links ut get an error on line 379 saying unbound variable so 
>>> I'm a bit lost at the moment.
>>> Can anyone help with the proper steps to install as a service?
>> 
>> This is one part of the product I've never really used (as it's not needed 
>> in Mac OS X Server), so perhaps somebody with experience using it can chime 
>> in...
>> 
>> What exactly are the errors you get when trying to run caldavd? Did you 
>> notice any errors after issuing "run -i"?
>> 
>> -dre
>> 
>>>   
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Laurence Popiel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Thanks. That was it. fat fingers.  
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Andre LaBranche <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Jan 17, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Ok back to the beginning. I have the server up and running on my test box 
>>>> using trunk rev 6738.
>>>> 
>>>> Just built my standalone server following the method I used successfully. 
>>>> All went well until I tried to run the server and got this error:
>>>> 
>>>> It starts to load and gets to Starting server then when it gets to
>>>> 
>>>>  File "usr/lib/python2.6/plist.py , line 301, in __getattr__
>>>> raise AttributeError , attr
>>>> AttributeError : append
>>>> 
>>>> any thoughts?
>>> 
>>> broken caldavd.plist?
>>> 
>>> xmllint --valid /path/to/your/config.plist
>>> 
>>> It should return nothing. If it finds an error, it will bark at you, e.g.:
>>> 
>>> bash-3.2# xmllint --valid /etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist > /dev/null
>>> /etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist:35: parser error : StartTag: invalid element name
>>>     <<string>icalvip.icalserver.rack</string> <!-- The hostname clients use 
>>> when
>>>      ^
>>> 
>>> You can always try the sample (dev) config if you're unsure whether yours 
>>> might be problematic.
>>> 
>>> -dre
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Laurence Popiel <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Finally after everyone's advise and help, I have the server up and running 
>>>> and sharing calendars. Since I am new to all of this and even more of a 
>>>> newbie when it comes to writing scripts, any advise on how to script 
>>>> server startup on boot and shutdown on reboot or shutdown.
>>>> 
>>>> larry
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Andre LaBranche <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Well, don't run memcached as root. Are you setting UserName and GroupName 
>>>> in caldavd.plist? These should be set to some non-root user that can be 
>>>> used for running the various daemons. See caldavd-apple.plist for an 
>>>> example. You may need to create a user account for this purpose, though it 
>>>> should be fine to test it using  your personal account.
>>>> 
>>>> -dre
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Well I followed the advise to use a release version 2.4 (not trunk) and 
>>>>> found that many of the links in the run script to pkgs are broken or 
>>>>> unavailable. I was able to repoint most of them but still to no avail.
>>>>>  At this point I went back to trunk and was able to run the script but it 
>>>>> too has another problem. It installs and it starts the server but it 
>>>>> hangs on the error below and never starts the server
>>>>> 
>>>>>  {memcached-Default} can't run as root without the -u switch 
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Anyone have any ideas as to how to get either version running.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Andre LaBranche <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Cool, you're welcome :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> The responsiveness you experience on our mailing list changes from time 
>>>>> to time, but it's been pretty good lately - glad it's helpful. It's sort 
>>>>> of an interesting situation for us, because to date our most important 
>>>>> target platform is Mac OS X Server, since that is where our service is 
>>>>> bundled and sold. However, linux support is becoming more and more 
>>>>> important, so it's great to see people picking it up and running with it 
>>>>> out in the world.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This probably goes without saying, but: the most important thing to know 
>>>>> about this and any other open source project is that the user (or 
>>>>> administrator) is responsible for validating the configuration and making 
>>>>> sure things are working as intended. Also, any support is usually offered 
>>>>> on a 'best effort' basis by the community, which may or may not be good 
>>>>> enough for business purposes. This is probably the biggest difference 
>>>>> between our open source distribution and what you find bundled with Mac 
>>>>> OS X Server.
>>>>> 
>>>>> In Cupertino, we've currently got zero inches of snow ;)
>>>>> -dre
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks dre,
>>>>>> it helps quite a lot. As a novice it has forced me to dive in headfirst 
>>>>>> and learn far more than I expected. Rather pleasantly i must say. also 
>>>>>> in all my years providing support in an enterprise environment (usual 
>>>>>> OSs for desktop and deployment) I have never experienced a community 
>>>>>> that is as responsive and willing helpful as your user community.
>>>>>> So thank you for all the work you have done and the gracious time you 
>>>>>> gave to help me.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Larry   (under 24" of snow today)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Andre LaBranche <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> It's been a while since the last release, so trunk is pretty different 
>>>>>> from the last 'stable' release. It's generally not recommended to run 
>>>>>> trunk code in a production environment, or if you do, make sure to test 
>>>>>> it thoroughly for your use cases. One reason that you may wish to avoid 
>>>>>> trunk code is that long-term problems can crop up, e.g. when upgrading 
>>>>>> to the next major version, we only support upgrades from older releases 
>>>>>> and not necessarily development versions.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I would probably recommend testing the most recent release to see if it 
>>>>>> does the job for you. Regarding how to actually deploy it on the 
>>>>>> production host, the 'run' script has an 'install' method that can 
>>>>>> install the various resources in the standard locations (e.g. 
>>>>>> /usr/local/...), however things like process lifecycle management are 
>>>>>> left up to the administrator. I would recommend that you do all the 
>>>>>> testing of your target release (or dev code if you wish) on a 
>>>>>> non-production host, including the installation using run script, and 
>>>>>> also whatever scripts you wish to use to start and stop the service, etc.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> There is not a great deal of documentation about our server outside of 
>>>>>> the PDF for iCal Server, however this is not targeted at the open source 
>>>>>> distribution, but rather the integrated distribution that is part of Mac 
>>>>>> OS X Server.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The documentation (in a somewhat tattered state, unfortunately) for the 
>>>>>> open source distribution is all located here: 
>>>>>> http://trac.calendarserver.org/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>>> -dre
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Now that I'm able to setup ad run the development version, where can I 
>>>>>>> find documentation on setting up in a small network production 
>>>>>>> environment. I'll have 8 users, three groups and 8 calendars. Does it 
>>>>>>> install differently and point to different config files ?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Andre LaBranche <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Looks like one of the externally hosted dependencies is failing to 
>>>>>>> download... will check into it.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -dre
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jan 11, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Guy wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Likely new checkins have broken something.. it's always risky running 
>>>>>>>> trunk..
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The usual advice here is to pick a revision that works and use that... 
>>>>>>>> either something from the released branch. Or just check out and use 
>>>>>>>> the revision that worked for you when you where testing.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> --Guy
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 11 Jan 2011, at 16:34, Laurence Popiel wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I am extremely new to Ubuntu and linux in general. I have installed 
>>>>>>>>> Ubuntu 10.04 and followed the steps outlined in several postings. 
>>>>>>>>> After a little trial and error I was able to set up and access the 
>>>>>>>>> CalendarServer and configure users by modifying the accounts.xml and 
>>>>>>>>> caldavd-dev.plist. I could connect via iCal and the two iphones in my 
>>>>>>>>> network.
>>>>>>>>> Since i was able to get it up and running I decided to build a server 
>>>>>>>>> to host the Calendar Server, afp file sharing, samba and use the 
>>>>>>>>> server for time Machine backups.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Using a pentium 4 box I installed Ubuntu 10.04 server and followed 
>>>>>>>>> these steps:
>>>>>>>>> 1) edit /etc/fstab to enable xattrs by adding the “user_xattr” option.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> e.g. (all on one line):
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> UUID=8f2bb850-0e8f-4d81-bba5-fb93ef9b9990 /               ext4    
>>>>>>>>> errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0       1
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> after doing the above you need to reboot, or “sudo mount / -o remount”
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 2) sudo apt-get build-dep postgresql
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 3) sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-xattr python-twisted 
>>>>>>>>> subversion curl
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 4) svn co 
>>>>>>>>> http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/calendarserver/CalendarServer/trunk
>>>>>>>>>  CalendarServer
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 5) cd CalendarServer ; ./run -s
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> when I run ./run -s i get this:
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Downloading libevent...
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> % Total %Received % Xferd AverageSpeed    Time     Time     Time     
>>>>>>>>> Current
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>                                                      Dload Upload     
>>>>>>>>>  Total    Spent    Left       Speed
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 0       0       0        0        0       0      0             0      
>>>>>>>>>     --:--:--  0:40:24  --:--:--
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> The previous successful install was revision 6725 and it continued 
>>>>>>>>> and finished without a hangup.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> now it is revision 6726 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Any ideas as to why it worked without a hitch 4 days ago and now I 
>>>>>>>>> cant get any further than what you see.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
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