Uruk won't "just work" for you out of the box. Since there are no defaults which will work for everybody (if you disagree, convince me there are!), it needs manual configuration. See uruk(8) for quick setup instructions. The Uruk Debian package installs /etc/init.d/uruk. The remark about this init script in the Uruk README file can be ignored. This package is somewhat biased to using uruk with the init script: This is likely the most common setup. I am interested in descriptions of other setups (integration with ifupdown, e.g.) -- Joost van Baal