Shurdix FAQ

Hopefully this page will help to find answers to most commonly asked questions.

When booting Shurdix for the first time, the root password is missing, so there is no way to login. You have to set the password (see Boot parameters). The login is of course root.

touch /mnt/ramdisk/um/users.dat;touch /mnt/ramdisk/um/macipmap.dat;service firewall restart;service tc restart

You also have to setup /mnt/ramdisk/dnsmasq.conf properly (see point 11 in howto). Also please note that just creating a new user through the web interface has the same effect as

touch /mnt/ramdisk/um/users.dat

with all the consequences, so make sure you know what you’re doing. Update: now you have to put

umlan=1

into /etc/sysconfig/services too.

edit /etc/sysconfig/services with

umlan=0

.

Depending on the configuration of dnsmasq and the nature of the change, it takes between 5 to 35 minutes for a change to become effective.

On the system with Shurdix run manually:

inetaccess.sh;updatedhcp.sh

If you changed the IP, you can reboot the client or just restart its network interfaces to enforce sending a DHCP-request.

Configuration is autosaved every hour if there were changes. You can save it manually by

service conf save

It is not recommended to reboot within 10 minutes after last config save, see next question.

This is fixed now (more precisely, there is an automatic workaround). Just update to latest version.

Shurdix synchronises system time over HTTP (see htpd). This keeps time to about 1 second precision by adjusting the system clock in small steps. If you start with too large a time difference, it is recommended to synchronise the time immediately (with htpdate or rdate).

Reboot problems and their solutions are described on a separate page: bootproblems.