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CALDAVD(8)                               BSD System Manager's Manual                              CALDAVD(8)

NAME
     caldavd -- Darwin Calendar Server Control Interface

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

DESCRIPTION
     caldavd is a front end to the Darwin Calendar Server.  The Darwin Calendar Server is provides a calen-daring calendaring
     daring 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.

     -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.

     /Library/CalendarServer/Documents
           The server's document root, which is the used as the backing store for the HTTP resources on the
           server.

     /Library/CalendarServer/Data
           Directory containing server data other than HTTP resources.

     /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
     Darwin 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 draft-desruisseauxcaldav-sched-06
     caldav-sched-06 (CalDAV Scheduling).

HISTORY
     caldavd was first introduced as part of Darwin 9 and Mac OS 10.5.

BSD                                           November 6, 2008                                           BSD

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