Here is the tail end of a system strace when the dictionary server is running from inetd:
13738 open("/usr/share/dictd/moby-thesaurus.dict.dz", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 19 13738 fstat64(19, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10757105, ...}) = 0 13738 mmap2(NULL, 10757105, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 19, 0) = 0xb5c76000 13738 brk(0x9fd9000) = 0x9fd9000 13738 brk(0xa004000) = 0xa004000 13738 brk(0xa02d000) = 0xa02d000 13738 gettimeofday({1299434885, 399639}, NULL) = 0 13738 getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, {ru_utime={0, 488030}, ru_stime={0, 168010}, ...}) = 0 13738 getrusage(RUSAGE_CHILDREN, {ru_utime={0, 0}, ru_stime={0, 0}, ...}) = 0 13738 write(1, "530 access denied\r\n"..., 19) = 19 13738 alarm(0) = 0 13738 gettimeofday({1299434885, 412994}, NULL) = 0 13738 getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, {ru_utime={0, 488030}, ru_stime={0, 168010}, ...}) = 0 13738 getrusage(RUSAGE_CHILDREN, {ru_utime={0, 0}, ru_stime={0, 0}, ...}) = 0 13738 close(0) = 0 13738 close(1) = 0 13738 exit_group(0) = ? This problem occured following upgrade to Debian Squeeze. Earlier versions of the dictd server worked just fine as non-root (from inetd). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org