Gophernicus is a modern full-featured (and hopefully) secure gopher daemon for inetd. You may want to 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 <your-hostname> Alternatively, gophernicus can be configured to run under xinetd. This is done automatically when xinetd is present on the system at the build time.