Inetd works fine. Nowhere in the FAQ does it say it doesn't. And I got it to work on my system...eventually. The problem seems to have been that inetd (or possibly tcpd) is very picky about spacing when parsing certain command lines. The following (from the FAQ, BTW) worked fine: smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /usr/sbin/tcpd /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd For some reason, spacing it with tabs like other lines in inetd.conf caused it to misbehave. Luckily, that's all finished now, and it's been a very polite daemon ever since. Remember today's lesson: perseverence! :) -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer
