> The problem isn't that you have to edit two files instead of one -- it's
> the little matter of knowing that you have to do this (and that you have

Part of the context for this discussion was cluttering up memory 
with things that aren't doing anything useful. 

This seems like a documentation issue.  Along with a document discussing 
the security issues of configuration options there should probably 
be one on how to configure a machine to run with minimal memory. 


Perhaps a message from inetd at startup time to complain/warn about 
not doing anything useful because everything in inetd.conf was commented 
out would help.