[CentOS] EL6, xinetd, and permissions. What am I missing?

Benjamin Smith wrote:
> Staging for a rollout of EL 6, and ran into a very strange permissions
> issue with xinetd that defies all (my) logic.
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You're not using access controls lists, are you? And if this is accessed
via httpd, is the php directory visible in the apache configuration?

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