Free/Busy - how does it work ?

[Geert Janssens]

On Thursday 17 September 2015 10:32:25 Nicholas Donkor wrote:
> 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
> 
Sure,

In file /etc/httpd/conf.d/kolab-freebusy.conf add this section:

<Directory "/usr/share/kolab-freebusy/public_html/"> 

systemctl restart httpd

On older Centos systems that's done via
service httpd restart

Regards,

Geert


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