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From: schuman@sgi.com (Aaron Schuman)
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William F Phillips, Sr.>  Do you know what it [inetd -d] is for?

Me>  It's a debug option.  All it does is throw a few remarks into the syslog.

Oops.  Brendan is right.  I was wrong.  It does more than fill syslog.
It keeps inetd from backgrounding itself.