so apparently.... the example rieMiner.conf which I copy pasted has some formatting issues.
To be safe I also removed special characters from the username and password.

Also, to run the miner and create a conf file you shouldn't install the miner to /usr/local/bin but run it in a sub directory of the user's home or else the conf file will not be generated by the assistant.

It would be very helpful to new(bie) users if there was a well vetted example rieMiner.conf.
 One of the conventions used in the current generated conf file by the assistant is the capitalization and the extra spacing which was unexpected.
instead of

With 6GB RAM I cannot seem to figure out the "tuning". Is there any help for that?

Thanks
I got it up and running at least