Notes for the Debian leafnode package: Service startup --------------- leafnode provides a socket-enabled systemd unit, but doesn't enable it by default: There's no clear consensus in Debian whether socket-enabled systemd generally phases out inetd invocation at this point and non-systemd continues see (limited) support still. For the vast majority of systemd systemd will be the preferred mode of operation. For it you simply need to run sudo systemctl enable --now leafnode.socket If you prefer to use inetd (or if you don't use systemd, you can instead use inetd. Debian's preferred configuration interface for inetd is update-inetd (which is also a Suggest:ed package): update-inetd --enable nntp --pattern tcp4 Configuration ------------- See the leafnode(8) manual page and the sample configuration file for documentation of the configuration file /etc/news/leafnode/config. If you place any login and password information required to access servers in the config file be sure to check that the permissions on that file do not allow people to see this information who shouldn't be able to. -- Moritz Muehlenhoff , Fri, 27 Jan 2023 22:52:13 +0100