Leafnode-2 <http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/leafnode/beta/> is a local caching proxy nntp server. It isn't among Arch's packages, but I have been using it for some years on another distro (Mandrake/Mandriva). Systemd launches xinetd on start-up: $ cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/xinetd.service [Unit] Description=A secure replacement for inetd After=network.target [Service] ExecStart=/usr/sbin/xinetd -dontfork ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target $ And xinetd has this file for Leafnode: $ cat /etc/xinetd.d/nntp service Leafnode { flags = NAMEINARGS NOLIBWRAP per_source = 3 port = 119 socket_type = stream protocol = tcp user = news server = /usr/sbin/tcpd server_args = /usr/local/sbin/leafnode type = UNLISTED wait = no instances = 7 only_from = 127.0.0.1 } (actually generated using webmin, but in accord with the instructions in the README and INSTALL files in the Leafnode tarball). But this doesn't allow any user to access Leafnode; I suspect this is because /usr/sbin/tcpd doesn't exist (being a part of tcp-wrappers which Arch no longer has). (I can run the Leafnode components fetchnews and texpire as root; but attempts to connect to the local server result in "connection refused"). There are no daemons launched from /etc/rc.conf. I have installed ufw as a substitute for tcp-wrappers and created this file: $ cat /etc/ufw/applications.d/ufw-newsserver [Leafnode] title=Leafnode description=NNTP caching proxy server ports=119/tcp $ and have these rules in force, at least one of which should allow local access to leafnode, I think: # ufw status Status: active To Action From -- ------ ---- Anywhere ALLOW 127.0.0.1 newsserver ALLOW 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 119/tcp ALLOW 127.0.0.1 Leafnode ALLOW 127.0.0.1 Rather than install tcp-wrappers on my Arch system, I'd like to use whatever the proper "server" is nowadays instead of /usr/sbin/tcpd - but what is it? Or is there something other than xinetd that works as a 'super server' with systemd? I've only been using Arch for a few months, and it's a bit of a challenge getting used to the Arch Way - particularly while it's changing over to systemd etc - so please be patient with me if I've missed something simple or made a newbie mistake! -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~