You can enable services (and thus autostart them at boot) withthis command: # systemctl enable service This means, you will need to type: # systemctl enable ufw Also, I recommend reading the wiki. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd Best regards, Sebastian M. On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 09:39:50PM -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: > Hello! > > How do I get ufw to start automatically upon Arch system startup? > > The Arch wiki Uncomplicated Firewall pages says: > "Start ufw as systemd service to have it running and enable it to make it > available after boot. " > > How do I do that? > > Then it shows an example configuration (can't I just keep the default: deny > all incoming, allow all outgoing)? > > Then it says: > "The next line is only needed *once* the first time you install the > package: > > # ufw enable" > > That does not seem to be true - I have to do "sudo ufw enable" every > time I restart the system. > > Then, it says: > "Then enable the ufw service with systemctl." > How? > Bottom line: ufw works okay, I just want it to start automatically > when the system starts up.