(Note: this misconfiguration is also present in 6.1 and probably numerous earlier versions, but is of pretty trivial importance. We might want to make the fix for 6.2, however.) The entries for the systat and netstat services in /etc/inetd.conf are commented by default, which is appropriate. Should someone choose to uncomment those services, then HUP or otherwise restart inetd, they would find that they could successfully connect to those services, but that the services themselves would not execute properly. All that would happen is the connection followed by immediate disconnection. The reason they seem to fail is that /etc/inetd.conf specifies that the associated commands are to be run by the user "guest". Because that user does not exist, the command is not executed. Substituting some other unprivileged user, such as "nobody", will allow those services to perform as expected. Given that the services are commented out, that people seldom use these "services", and often sys admins choose not to run ANY inetd services, this is a very low priority bug. Nevertheless, it is one we might wish to change for 6.2 so that things work correctly -- even services that we might have little enthusiasm for people running.
Not an issue anymore.