cgminer can mine to your local bitcoind as solo - that's what he is trying to do.
Of course solo mining to your own bitcoind is a pretty risky idea since you can lose blocks way more easily than mining to a well connected and properly setup pool.
ok, yes now i remember this option, i tried it back in 2013, but left that option very quickly due to instability and went to pool mining. forgot about this.
using the auto-tune version for a while now (since release). I notice that two of three miners are sometimes (1 or 2 times a day) are going back in freq and then autotuning again. the other miner is stable @ freq all the time, once autotuned it stays there. is this normal behaviour? our should i do something about it? (like using option somehow).
this is my config: