Monthly Archives: May 2005

publishing free/busy information in Evolution

Posted by Julian Dunn on May 27, 2005
Electronic Mail, Tools / No Comments

Ximian Evolution can publish Free/Busy information by using WebDAV, but this doesn’t seem to be documented anywhere I could find. Here’s what I did to set it up:

  • Set up a WebDAV-compliant webserver. I installed mod_dav for Apache 1.3.x.
  • Configure DAV properly, and make sure that the directory you are enabling DAV for is writable by the webserver user.
  • Configure Evolution. Select Tools > Settings, then Free/Busy Publishing. Click Add URL and in Publishing Location type in http://your-server-name/your-location/. Don’t forget to supply the username and password you set up for DAV.
  • You’ll get no diagnostics from Evolution when the publishing occurs, so you’ll have to check the webserver logs to see if it succeeded or failed.

BSDCan 2005 Remarks

Posted by Julian Dunn on May 15, 2005
BSD / 1 Comment

I’ve just returned from the 2nd annual BSDCan conference in Ottawa, Ontario, organized by the very capable Dan Langille. In addition to being a super nice guy, Dan is also the founder of the FreeBSD Diary, FreshPorts, FreshSource and is involved with the BSD Certification project. Let nobody say that Dan hasn’t given enough to the BSD community!

In the spirit and style of the USENIX conference summaries published in ;login: magazine, I’m going to summarize (and pollute with my own personal remarks) the sessions that I attended.
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