---
name: "caldavd"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "calendarserver"
version: "9.2+dfsg-1"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/caldavd"
---

# caldavd(8)

Calendar Server Control Interface

## NAME

**caldavd** – Calendar Server Control Interface

## SYNOPSIS

**caldavd** \[**-hX**\] \[**-hL**\] \[**-u** *username*\] \[**-g** *groupname*\] \[**-T** *twistd*\] \[**-f** *caldavd.plist*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**caldavd** is a front end to the Calendar Server.  Calendar Server is provides a calendaring service based on the CalDAV protocol, which is in turn based on HTTP and WebDAV.

**caldavd** is a simple tool for starting the server.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**

  Displays usage information

- **-X**

  Starts the server but does not daemonize it.

- **-L**

  Sends error logging output to stdout rather than the file specified in caldavd.plist.

- **-u** *username*

  Drops privileges to the given username.

- **-g** *groupname*

  Drops privileges to the given groupname.

- **-f** *caldavd.plist*

  Specifies the path of the configuration file to read.

- **-T** *twistd*

  Specifies the path to the twistd binary.

## FILES

- /etc/caldavd/caldavd.plist

  The Calendar Server configuration file.  It is an XML property list specifying server options such as the port to bind to, whether to use SSL, and the names of other files can specified.

- /etc/caldavd/server.pem

  PEM-format server keys for use with SSL.

- /var/log/caldavd/access.log

  The server's access log file, in a format similar to Apache HTTPd's access log.

- /var/log/caldavd/error.log

  The server's main log file.

- /var/run/caldavd.pid

  The server's process ID file.

## SEE ALSO

[httpd(8)](/httpd/8.md)

## STANDARDS

Calendar Server is intended to comply with RFC 2445 (iCalendar), RFC 2446 (iTIP), RFC 2447 (iMIP), RFC 2612 (HTTP), RFC 2617 (HTTP Authentication), RFC 4559 (SPNEGO), RFC 2518 (WebDAV), RFC 3744 (WebDAV ACL), RFC 5397 (WebDAV Current Principal Extension), RFC 4791 (CalDAV), and draft-desruisseaux-caldav-sched-06 (CalDAV Scheduling).

## HISTORY

**caldavd** was first introduced as part of Mac OS X Server 10.5.