Comment 6 for bug 1091007

I can start servers (proxy, account, etc...) specifying their config file in command line, like:

  /usr/local/bin/swift-proxy-server /path/to/proxy-server.conf

I can set swift_dir in the config. And this mostly works except swift_hash_path_suffix, which location is hard coded to /etc/swift/swift.conf

I am running a test script (as non-root), which deploys mini-swift in a user local directory, but for this to work I still need to create /etc/swift/swift.conf as a root and set swift_hash_path_suffix, which is globally used by all test environments on this host.

My (simplified) approach to fix this was to allow to set the location of swift.conf with swift_hash_path_suffix via SWIFT_DIR environment variable. Flavio provided much more general solution. I hope it will be committed eventually.