Samuel Hornus writes:

>conf file again. I did `kill 1 (inetd pid)` and got a violent crash  :-(

The correct notation is "kill -HUP (inetd_pid)".  What you did was send
SIGTERM (the default kill signal) to pid 1 (which always is the init process)
and inetd... although specifying inetd there was kinda redundant,
considering you kicked inetd in the balls at the same time. :)

--mkb