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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) the best way of editing .plist files Post 302160346 by PxT on Monday 21st of January 2008 05:46:39 PM
Old 01-21-2008
Use the 'defaults' command which is included with the OS, or the GUI Property List Editor which comes with the Developers toolkit. If you are on Leopard there is also a tool called PlistBuddy.
 

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CALDAVD(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						CALDAVD(8)

NAME
caldavd -- Darwin 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 Darwin Calendar Server. The Darwin Calendar Server is provides a calendaring service based on the CalDAV pro- tocol, 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) STANDARDS
Darwin 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 (Cal- DAV), and draft-desruisseaux-caldav-sched-06 (CalDAV Scheduling). HISTORY
caldavd was first introduced as part of Darwin 9 and Mac OS 10.5. BSD
November 6, 2008 BSD
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