Free/Busy - how does it work ?

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 03 September 2015 22:03:27 Liutauras Adomaitis wrote:
> On Thursday 03 of September 2015 18:28:06 Geert Janssens wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 September 2015 18:19:14 Geert Janssens wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have installed kolab using rpm packages on centos 7. I'm now
> > > looking at how to enable the freebusy system.
> > > 
> > > The package kolab-freebusy got installed but from poking around it
> > > appears to be only the webinterface part.
> > > 
> > > The kolab documentation seems to talk of a free/busy
> > > service/daemon
> > > fbdaemon as well and/or setting up a cron job. But I don't find
> > > this
> > > on my system. And the documentation page is pretty incomplete
> > > also.
> > > 
> > > So what's parts am I missing to get free/busy information working
> > > ?
> > > 
> > > Thank you for any pointers.
> > > 
> > > Geert Janssens
> > 
> > Partial response to my own question. I found a list post from 2013:
> > https://lists.kolab.org/pipermail/users/2013-February/014390.html
> > 
> > Which suggests I need kolab-utils installed which should add a cron
> > job. I do have kolab-utils install but the cron job is not part of
> > that package.
> > 
> > So I'm almost there. I just need to figure out what's the currently
> > recommended way to start the kolab-freebusyd on Centos 7 ?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Geert
> 
> Have a look at /etc/kolab-freebusy/config.ini
> Recent version of kolab-freebusy is intended to run as a webservice,
> no need to have a cronjob. For that you need to have apache
> (webserver) configured appropriatly. Default installation ships an
> example of configuration in /etc/httpd/conf.d/kolab-freebusy..conf
> 
> Liutauras


It turns out my default apache config didn't provide permissions to the freebusy directory. 
Adding the proper permissions made freebusy working.

Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction.

Regards,

Geert
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