Mountain Lion has an application called Contacts. Mountain Lion Server has a service called Contacts. While the names might imply differently, surprisingly the two are designed to work with one another. The Contacts service was called Address Book in Lion and below and is based on CardDAV, a protocol for storing contact information on the web, retrievable and digestible by client computers. The Contacts service is also a conduit with which to read information from LDAP and display that information in the Contacts client, which is in a way similar to how the Global Address List (GAL) works in Microsoft Exchange. I know I’ve said this about other services in…
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Mac OS X Server: CalDav Log Fun
The selected logfile does not exist. Ran into an interesting little problem again, where the iCal Server doesn’t create its log directory when you enable it. Not sure why this happens, but the first thing to do when you see this error is verify that the /var/log/caldavd directory is present on the system. If not: mkdir /var/log/caldavd Then, restart the service and see if access.log and error.log are created in this folder. If not: touch /var/log/caldavd/access.log touch /var/log/caldavd/error.log And for good measure: chmod 640 access.log chmod 640 error.log How did I know where those logs go? serveradmin settings calendar:ErrorLogFile; serveradmin settings calendar:AccessLogFile It’s therefore possible to actually decide you’d rather…