The conversion process puts 'internal' in lower case, which apparently xinetd goes not like: server = internal needs to be server = INTERNAL From log: Oct 10 11:59:27 localhost xinetd[9428]: Server internal is not executable [line=9]
OK - fixed by not converting internal services (I'll rather include them with xinetd itself)
The release will be xinetd-2.1.8.9pre11-1 or higher.