[Kolab-devel] [issue2540] dummy .pvc file created when using horde's attendees.php

[Mike Gabriel]

New submission from Mike Gabriel <m.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de>:

from http://www.kolab.org/pipermail/kolab-devel/2008-March/008650.html

Mike Gabriel <m.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> writes:

> hi gunnar,
>
> On Donnerstag 21 Februar 2008, you wrote:
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> Mike Gabriel <m.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> writes:
>> > hi gunnar,
>> >
>> > here are some more observations about the new fb system in kolab-cvs:
>> >
>> >    o using the attendees.php script in kronolith as "user A": whenever
>> >      attendees.php is called as user A and the first attendee is added to
>> > the list of attendees, a file named ".pvc" is created in the
>> > kolab-freebusy cache dir. is that intentional??? (it is the dummy .pvc
>> > file: "This is a dummy vfreebusy that indicates an empty calendar...")
>>
>> once you add attendees, the system accesses the Free/busy
>> information. So at that point the information should also get cached
>> and you should see such files. They should only contain the "dummy
>> vfreebusy" if the user has no events in the requested period.
>
> i understand, a user's own Kalender.* files in freebusy-cache are not updated 
> when this users calls horde's attendees.php. instead a dummy .vc file is 
> created (it is only called ".vc"). The Kalender is not empty, though. Refer 
> below:
>
> <snip>
> (root at mailserver) {/var/cache/kolab-freebusy/das-netzwerkteam^de/userA} # 
> ls -al
> insgesamt 28
> drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 2008-02-21 10:37 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 2008-02-19 15:31 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  191 2008-02-20 13:27 Kalender.acl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 5914 2008-02-20 13:27 Kalender.pvc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data   71 2008-02-20 13:27 Kalender.xacl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1639 2008-02-21 10:37 .vc
>                                                      ^^^
> </snap>

Do you still see that in your installation? I didn't get to work on
this yet, but it would be nice you if you could open a bug about that
in the tracker as a reminder. That is more persistent than if I flag
this mail for me :)

Thanks!

Cheers,

Gunnar

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