Comments on: Sync multiple iCal 2.0.5 calendars with Google Calendar

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:33:21 +0000

Sorry for the late reply, but for anyone following along at home: if you did step 5, your files should be located at /usr/local/sbin/GCALDaemon. However, that means Step 7 should have worked for you. If they’re not there, the unzip probably didn’t work.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:39:34 +0000

Ok, I tried to follow your directions, and I basically just made a mess. I was able to get to step 6. But this is what I got after entering the 1st command in Step 7: chgrp: /usr/local/sbin/GCALDaemon: No such file or directory. Now the sudo unzip command did work. So where are all those inflated files? At this point, I’d just like to return back to my original settings, but I have no idea how to uninstall.

Ideas?
A Rookie

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:50:06 +0000

My guess is that this is related to a Java update, and likely due to the eternal Mac culprit: permissions.

Try, in terminal:
sudo sh chmod o+r /Library/Java/Home/lib/jvm.cfg
Obviously, enter your password when the first command prompts you–but if you went the GCAL route, you probably already knew that.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:51:11 +0000

Hey

Syncing my ical with google worked well until a few weeks ago. Now when I enter the command: /usr/local/sbin/GCALDaemon/bin/config-editor.sh

I get the response: Error: no known VMs. (check for corrupt jvm.cfg file)

Gcaldeamon doesn’t start. According to posts from other websites this might be due to a recent sw update of Tiger. Do you have any idea how to fix it?

Thank you in advance

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:53:15 +0000

Shelby,

if /usr/local/sbin does not exist, you can create it. Simply type:

mkdir /usr/local/sbin

and hit enter. then you should be able to

cd /usr/local/sbin

By: Shelby

Shelby — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:36:25 +0000

Ok, So I am so excited that this will help me sink my ical and google calendar… But I am stuck on step 4 of the 1st round of steps. It tells me to enter cd /usr/local/sbin into my terminal, but when I do that my terminal comes back and says “no such file or directory found”. Would you happen to know why? If you could help me trouble shoot that would be awesome…. P.S this is my first time using the terminal and I am pretty computer language illiterate.
Thank you for your help.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:43:45 +0000

i’m not exactly sure, but I would think that you can subscribe to the calendar with gmail, and then use Calgoo to connect it to your ical calendar. That way, iCal will see it as a “normal” calendar, and then you can sync with MobileMe/iPhone.

Again, I don’t use either, but this seems like it would work. Obviously, you can’t add/edit a read-only subscribed calendar, but that should allow it to sync.

Alternatively, if this is just a subscribed calendar, can’t you more easily just add the subscription URL directly to your iPhone’s calendar app? no much point in syncing it, as it’s not going to change.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:14:42 +0000

Hi, sorry for what is likely to be a dumb question but am very new to this. I have read that subscription calendars will not work on mobileme and iPhone, only the standard calendars. There is software I can purchase to work around this but wonder whether this will do the job for free? Thanks for the walk-through; don’t understand some of the finer details of it but in the main is exactly what I think I need; thanks and well done!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:12:47 +0000

It should be very similar:

1) Click the “new” button
2) Create a name for it (use com.lingon.mygcald or something similar)
3) In the “what” field, use /usr/local/sbin/GCALDaemon/bin/standalone-start.sh
4) Check the boxes for “always keep running” and “run it when loaded by the system”

By: M. Tamer Ozsu

M. Tamer Ozsu — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:24:19 +0000

A question — in setting up Lingon, version 2.1 of Lingon does not have the same interface as what you indicate. There is no “assistant”, and when I click “new” to set up a new file, the interface is very different. Any suggestions as to how to set it up with version 2.1 of Lingon would be much appreciated.