The "bind_port" setting in Swift's config files is required to be explicitly set. It doesn't matter what the number is. If you have a port conflict with another service, feel free to change it.
As to why port 6000 was used initially... The truth is probably lost to the mists of time. However, I know that "we're listening for X11 on the storage boxes of our object storage system" was never a concern :-) There's an open patch to change the docs to use a different port, but for now, feel free to use another port number which is more convenient for you. --John On 29 Apr 2016, at 4:51, Peter Brouwer wrote: > On 29/04/2016 10:12, Peter Brouwer wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> >> When looking at the ports used by the system I noticed port 6000 is already >> in use before starting the swift services. >> >> In the swift object-server.conf file the default port setting is 6000 to, so >> yes when starting the swift object server there is an error message in the >> corresponding log file and the object-service is put in a maintenance state. >> >> How do I find out which other unix process is using this 6000 port, it seems >> that 6001 is in the range (6000-6007) commonly used by x11. Why did the >> swift openstack folks pick the same port range for their storage services >> processes? > To followup on the last q, port 6000 is used by X11 if you enable tcp > listening option ( part of startx or in gdm config file) > This is considered a non secure situation and not recommended, but it leaves > the risk of swift using a same port as x11 if an admin chooses to use the tcp > listen option for remote X11 connections (vnc) > > >> >> >> > > -- > Regards, > > Peter Brouwer, Principal Software Engineer, > Oracle Application Integration Engineering. > Phone: +44 1506 672767, Mobile +44 7720 598 226 > E-Mail: peter.brou...@oracle.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
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