In some mail I received from Andrew Brown, sie wrote
[...]
> okay, assuming your threat model (which is much more *insidous* than
> mine :), would the idead of inetd directly after date in /etc/rc be
> better (then all /etc/rc has to do is exit) or would it actually be
> more palatable to have init start the first instance of inetd after
> it's finished mucking with the securelevel?

If I may be bold for a moment, if we had an inittab and run levels, we'd
define the transition from (say) 3 to 4 to be "going multiuser and increase
securelevel if appropriate" and then start inetd at run level 4.