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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,
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>> When looking at the ports used by the system I noticed port 6000 is already in use before starting the swift services.
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>> 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.
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>> 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)
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>
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