>... In fact, on further investigation, *nothing* works
>from inetd unless its running as root! ...
Yikes.
After you send inetd a HUP (and wait a minute), is there anything of
interest in /var/adm/messages?
Do you actually have a user "amanda" (or whatever) defined? Is it local
(/etc/passwd) or are you one of those silly NIS people? :-)
If none of this helps, the next thing I'd try is starting a truss on
inetd itself and making a connection that does not work, then look at
that output.
>- John
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]