NAME

       caldavd — Calendar Server Control Interface

SYNOPSIS

       caldavd [-hX] [-hL] [-u username] [-g groupname] [-T twistd] [-f caldavd.plist]

DESCRIPTION

       caldavd  is  a front end to the Calendar Server.  Calendar Server is provides a calendaring service based
       on the CalDAV protocol, which is in turn based on HTTP and WebDAV.

       caldavd is a simple tool for starting the server.

OPTIONS

       -h    Displays usage information

       -X    Starts the server but does not daemonize it.

       -L    Sends error logging output to stdout rather than the file specified in caldavd.plist.

       -u username
             Drops privileges to the given username.

       -g groupname
             Drops privileges to the given groupname.

       -f caldavd.plist
             Specifies the path of the configuration file to read.

       -T twistd
             Specifies the path to the twistd binary.

FILES

       /etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist
             The Calendar Server configuration file.  It is an XML property list specifying server options  such
             as the port to bind to, whether to use SSL, and the names of other files can specified.

       /etc/caldavd/server.pem
             PEM-format server keys for use with SSL.

       /var/log/caldavd/access.log
             The server's access log file, in a format similar to Apache HTTPd's access log.

       /var/log/caldavd/error.log
             The server's main log file.

       /var/run/caldavd.pid
             The server's process ID file.

SEE ALSO

       httpd(8)

STANDARDS

       Calendar  Server  is  intended to comply with RFC 2445 (iCalendar), RFC 2446 (iTIP), RFC 2447 (iMIP), RFC
       2612 (HTTP), RFC 2617 (HTTP Authentication), RFC 4559 (SPNEGO), RFC 2518 (WebDAV), RFC 3744 (WebDAV ACL),
       RFC 5397 (WebDAV Current Principal Extension), RFC 4791 (CalDAV), and  draft-desruisseaux-caldav-sched-06
       (CalDAV Scheduling).

HISTORY

       caldavd was first introduced as part of Mac OS X Server 10.5.

Debian                                          November 6, 2008                                      CALDAVD(8)