Me, not reading the entire thread, said:

>There was a bug in certain versions of inetd whereby the output
>went to the $STDLIST of the job, not back to the socket. Here is
>what I needed to do in cvs to make it work under inetd (this should
>work for both the buggy version and the fixed version):

[snip]

Whooops ... that would need to be done in Perl itself. In your
case, to make this work under inetd, you'll need to get the
fixed version.

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