I had trouble installing Calendar Server as a system service using
launchd, and I thought I'd share my solution with the list in case
there are others out there like me that know just enough to be
dangerous.
This assumes that you have Calendar Server installed and can launch it
manually using "./run -d".
As suggested on the list in November, I downloaded Lingon (http://lingon.sourceforge.net
) to simplify the process of creating a launchd service. In Lingon,
create a new service and set it as a User Daemon. Enter the following
information:
Name: com.apple.calendarserver
What: /Library/CalendarServer/run -d (if you have CalendarServer
installed somewhere else, adjust this appropriately)
When: Select "Run it when it is loaded by the system (at startup or
login)".
If you save this and restart your computer... it won't work! The
console reports an "unbound variable" error and the service doesn't
start.
The cause of this, as near as I can tell, is due to what looks like
debugging code in the "run" script. Open CalendarServer/run in a text
editor (after making a backup!) and search for the following, toward
the end of the script:
#
# Twisted
#
case "${USER}" in
wsanchez)
proto="svn+ssh";
;;
*)
proto="svn";
;;
esac;
svn_uri="${proto}://svn.twistedmatrix.com/svn/Twisted/branches/dav-
acl-1608-4";
svn_get "Twisted" "${twisted}" "${svn_uri}" 19773;
The problem (I think) is that USER is not defined when the script is
run at startup, but the case statement is in there for debugging
purposes; we just need proto set to "svn". So you can delete (or
comment out) all but the three lines of the above code:
proto="svn";
svn_uri="${proto}://svn.twistedmatrix.com/svn/Twisted/branches/dav-
acl-1608-4";
svn_get "Twisted" "${twisted}" "${svn_uri}" 19773;
There is one more block of code that checks the USER variable and thus
needs to be changed:
case "${USER}" in
cyrusdaboo)
base="svn+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/svn";
;;
*)
base="http://svn.osafoundation.org";;
;;
esac;
svn_uri="${base}/vobject/branches/users/cdaboo/vavailability-173";
svn_get "vObject" "${vobject}" "${svn_uri}" 178;
put_setuptools "${vobject}";
In this case, we need only to initialize the "base" variable, so it
can be replaced with this:
base="http://svn.osafoundation.org";;
svn_uri="${base}/vobject/branches/users/cdaboo/vavailability-173";
svn_get "vObject" "${vobject}" "${svn_uri}" 178;
put_setuptools "${vobject}";
Now, maybe this messes something up that I don't understand, but
making these changes to the script and restarting seems to do the
trick. I hope this helps someone else out as well.
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Toby W. Rush - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Instructor of Music Theory
PVA Webmaster & Technical Operations Manager
University of Northern Colorado
"Omnia voluntaria est."
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