[plug] Inetd complaining for no good reason

[Cameron Patrick]

Evenin' Plug,

I'm seeing some odd messages in the syslog on my gateway at home from
inetd, complaining about not being able to bind to the telnet or smtp
ports.  Despite this telnet and smtp are working fine, and netstat shows
that inetd is in fact bound to them anyway.

# tail /var/log/daemon.log
<snip>
Jul 22 22:24:17 euclid inetd[7350]: smtp/tcp4: bind: Address already in use
Jul 22 22:24:17 euclid inetd[7350]: telnet/tcp4: bind: Address already in use
<snip>
Jul 22 22:34:17 euclid inetd[7350]: smtp/tcp4: bind: Address already in use
Jul 22 22:34:17 euclid inetd[7350]: telnet/tcp4: bind: Address already in use

# netstat -ap | egrep '(telnet|smtp)'
tcp        0      0 *:telnet                *:*		LISTEN      7350/inetd
tcp        0      0 *:smtp                  *:*		LISTEN      7350/inetd

$ telnet euclid smtp
Trying 10.0.1.1...
Connected to euclid.home.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 euclid.home ESMTP Exim 3.36 #1 Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:48:05 +0800

I suppose it's not really a problem since everything still works, but
can anyone tell me what's going on here?

TIA,

Cameron.