One other question. Setting the conf file to 2121 & daemon to 1 & address to 127.0.0.1, how is the best way to check it is working? The console doesn't seem to provide much help.
If you have sufficient hash rate for the current difficulty you will see in cg/bfminer the lines with the word "Accepted ...", otherwise the only way to check is the hot temperature of your miner.