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Is it a bug?



Ah. Thank you. For 'bug' read 'feature'. Or 'documented behavior' - I must remember that one :)

The one place I didn't look - updated man pages. Having checked the installed...

Exactly so. A system daemon (such as inetd) should surely be protected from inheriting it's parent process's environment in the normal way.

A warning to us all when writing service initialisation...

Curious problem I just encountered: needing to restart inetd, I su'd to root and executed the usual commands
# /etc/init.d/inetsvc stop
# /etc/init.d/inetsvc start

Shortly after this, users...