General configuration remarks

Basically, all configuration files are located under /mnt/ramdisk

In order to active changes, usually it is necessary to restart the related service. For example, if you change the network parameters for eth0, you should do

ifdown eth0;ifup eth0

or if you don’t mind restarting the whole network you can do

service network restart

but of course you have to be careful if you do this remotely.

Don’t put the configuration options into quotes, it will break it. For example,

ROUTE=default via 10.0.0.1

is good, but

ROUTE="default via 10.0.0.1"

is wrong.

In order for the configuration to be available after a reboot, it has to be saved on a permanent medium (usually this is the same as the boot medium). Unless this is done, the configuration changes are lost. If you can wait, cron will automagically save the current configuration hourly upon detecting changes, if you need to reboot faster however, you can save it manually:

service conf save

This requires that the “conf” partition is prepared and Shurdix has been told to use it. If you are running a properly installed system, this is always the case (unless you ran out of diskspace). For more details see conf service.

The configuration is saved in the file shurdix-conf.tar.gz and the previous save is backed up under shurdix-conf.tar.gz.old. On older versions (than about 0.3.300) , this file is called routehat-conf.tar.gz and will be renamed when you upgrade.