[Openstack] [swift] permission denied errors during swift-init start main

2013-08-14 Thread Snider, Tim
Through an unfortunate series of events I get "permission denied" trying to start the account, container, and object server. Circumstantial evidence points to (maybe) the swift user/group or something with syslog being messed up. If someone could give me some pointers I'd appreciate it. This hap

Re: [Openstack] [swift] permission denied errors during swift-init start main

2013-08-14 Thread Snider, Tim
ile "/usr/lib/python2.7/genericpath.py", line 54, in getmtime Aug 14 19:09:52 swift21 swift-account-server STDOUT: return os.stat(filename).st_mtime Aug 14 19:09:52 swift21 swift-account-server STDOUT: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/swift/account.ring.gz' root@swift2

[Openstack] [swift] complete reinstallation steps needed

2013-08-26 Thread Snider, Tim
Thru a series of missteps I (apparently) have mismatched Swift related python files / libraries installed on at least one node. "swift-init start main" results in: root@swift21:~# swift-init start main Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/swift-init", line 4, in from pk

[Openstack] [Swift] Small cluster size

2013-09-04 Thread Snider, Tim
I'd like to get input from the community on a 'realistic' size of a small Swift cluster that might be deployed & used in the field for production. SAIO / test / lab setups aren't a consideration. I'm interested in hearing about both private and public cluster sizes that are deployed for actual.

[Openstack] [swift] Using --debug option to list curl commands

2013-10-07 Thread Snider, Tim
I'd like to use curl to access a Ceph cluster. The swift API works and I thought I could use the debug option to look at the curl commands generated for access. Does the --debug option of swift print the entire command for all curl commands during execution? Debug output from the 2nd curl comma

[Openstack] [swift] - rsync questions

2013-11-22 Thread Snider, Tim
Some rsync related questions. Is the ring_check_interval the only variable that controls (potential) rsync operations for the replicator? ONce the replicator starts an rsync operation does checking continue or is it suspended until the current rsync operation completes? Do other swift components