To run under inetd, add this line to your /etc/inetd.conf and then restart or kill -HUP the inetd process: gopher stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/in.gophernicus in.gophernicus -h To run under xinetd, just restart or kill -HUP the xinetd process after installing the package. This assumes you already have xinetd installed and running.