Comments on: GCALDaemon deb-package for Ubuntu/Kubuntu

By: Philipp C. Heckel

Philipp C. Heckel — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 09:22:31 +0000

Hey mc,

thanks for contributing. I’m sure it’ll help the others!

Regards,
Philipp

By: mc

mc — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:40:21 +0000

Problem on 1st June 16 post solved, though cause not known.

To fix changed file:
~/.gcaldaemon/conf/logger-config.cfg
line
log4j.appender.file.Directory=autodetect
line to:
log4j.appender.file.Directory=~/.gcaldaemon
and now I get a log file.

Though why the autodetect didn’t give me a log file I don’t know.
May have something to do with permissions.

By: mc

mc — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:33:14 +0000

To Jay, June 16 2009:

I now use it with KOrganizer and it works well, syncs both ways.

I use it with file synchronizer, enable offline mode (“Enable dial-up connection…”).
The calendar address you specify in the iCal Calendar column (in the graphical configuration) should be the KOrg calendar.

By: mc

mc — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:23:02 +0000

Have been using this for 2 months very smoothly.
But yesterday I went to look at the log file,
found it at:
/usr/share/gcaldaemon/log/gcal-daemon.log
but it was empty.
I wonder if as part of moving things around, something has gone wrong with specifying the log file?

Just in case, I checked,
there was no log file in the work directory, nor in the home dir.
regards
mc

By: Philipp C. Heckel

Philipp C. Heckel — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:16:59 +0000

Hallo mc,

thank you for your nice comments — esp. the ones of the bug reports.
I think the problem is that GCALDaemon is not in active development and I don’t know have the Debian/Ubuntu guys feel about adding an outdated package to the repo.

Let’s continue this discussion on the bug report page…

Regards,
Philipp

By: mc

mc — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:13:19 +0000

I posted my comments to the launchpad bug report
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/305446
mc

By: mc

mc — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:53:29 +0000

Just found this – really very nice, thanks.

Having the config file in the home dir was good – I need to carry my home dir between machines, so the gcaldaemon default of having it in the program dir was not good.

Also, your easy script for stopping the daemon (gcaldaemon stop) was helpful. I keep the calendars on an encrypted dis, and need to be able to stop the daemon before dismounting. Wan’t sure how to stop it otherwise as the process name is a bit unhelpful.

Using it on Kubuntu 8.04. Will soon switch to 10.04.
mc

By: kp

kp — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:07:09 +0000

Thanks for packaging this for us, my only problem is that, if you plan to run this in a command-line environment only, it might not be appropriate.

I’ve had to change /usr/bin/gcaldaemon to load the default conf found /usr/share/gcaldaemon/conf.

Also for people having trouble using the ldap service, please have a look here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gcaldaemon/forums/forum/643348/topic/3417160/index/page/1

By: Vitalins

Vitalins — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:37:54 +0000

Quite a decent blog, at least filling of topics. Have more to these blogs.

By: magatz

magatz — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 06:13:10 +0000

Thank you Philip.

Are you experiencing problem with the LDAP service?
I’ve enabled it, and i’ve seen that the contacts are dowloaded as csv from google, but the ldap service seems non to work at all.
Sorry for the question, but i don’t much activity on the project by the actual mantainers….