8080 stream tcp nowait.1000 root /home/alex/fossil/fossil/fossil http /home/fossil/fossil/lfossil.fossil

However, it does not work. Using netcat, I find that instead of responding with http messages, it simply replies

http: http: unknown command: /home/fossil/fossil/lfossil.fossil http: use "help" for more information

Fossil clearly does not understand the parameters passed to it. Would someone that has experience respond to this problem, and update the Quick Start guide?

Thanks.

steveb added on 2011-07-22 07:22:33 UTC:
Looks to me like you missed a parameter in your inetd line. Look carefully at the example at http://www.sqlite.org/debug1/doc/tip/www/quickstart.wiki

80 stream tcp nowait.1000 root /usr/bin/fossil /usr/bin/fossil http /home/proj1/repos1.fossil

Note that /usr/bin/fossil is listed twice. The first time is the command to execute and the second is argv[0] passed to the program. They will often be the same, as in this example.