about the pools I added a second pool server to cgminer, 'failover' should kick in in case the first pool drops, is this a good idea or is it best to just connect to one ? btw I am using de.ckpool.org:3333 and de.ckpool.org:443
Yes it's a good idea to have a backup pool or two.
But you are using the same pool just two different ports on that pool. So that doesn't help for a failover pool.
FOUND IT!!: its ./cgminer
not cgminer
Not sure what the ./ is supposed to mean, I guess I should research that, but it's a requirement for Linux. Glad your working now. However it's still a mystery where that old version of CGMiner came from.