Free/Busy - how does it work ?

[Nicholas Donkor]

Hello Geert,

Please how was that done, can you provide a detail description, steps and
configuration lines that were changed or added for novice like us to follow
?

Thanks,
Donkor Nicholas



On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Geert Janssens <geert at kobaltwit.be> wrote:

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