Could be. Do you know how to tell?
But /etc/inetd.conf says the micro_httpd will run as root, so if you can execute tail from the command line, I don't know what is wrong.

Try this. Type:
micro_httpd / <and hit enter>
get / 1.0 <and hit enter>
<hit enter>

You should see something like this:

HTTP/1.0 200 Ok
Server: micro_httpd
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 21:53:45 GMT
Content-type: text/html
Last-modified: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 22:04:17 GMT
Connection: close

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Index of ./</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#99cc99"><H4>Index of ./</H4>
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drwxr-xr-x 1024 Sep 3 20:25 <A HREF="bin/">bin/</A>
drwxr-xr-x 1024 Sep 2 09:14 <A HREF="dev/">dev/</A>
drwxr-xr-x 1024 Sep 4 20:59 <A HREF="drive0/">drive0/</A>
drwx------ 1024 Jun 2 1999 <A HREF="drive1/">drive1/</A>
drwxr-xr-x 1024 Jun 23 14:09 <A HREF="empeg/">empeg/</A>
drwxr-xr-x 1024 Sep 2 20:55 <A HREF="etc/">etc/</A>
drwxr-xr-x 2048 Sep 2 20:47 <A HREF="lib/">lib/</A>
drwxr-xr-x 12288 Aug 4 14:57 <A HREF="lost+found/">lost+found/</A>
drwxr-xr-x 1024 Jun 2 1999 <A HREF="mnt/">mnt/</A>
dr-xr-xr-x 0 Sep 4 10:53 <A HREF="proc/">proc/</A>
lrwxrwxrwx 3 Aug 4 14:57 <A HREF="sbin">sbin</A> -> bin/
lrwxrwxrwx 10 Aug 4 14:57 <A HREF="swapfile">swapfile</A> -> ./dev
/hda6
drwxrwxrwx 1024 Sep 4 21:50 <A HREF="tmp/">tmp/</A>
drwxr-xr-x 1024 Sep 3 20:04 <A HREF="usr/">usr/</A>
drwxr-xr-x 1024 Sep 2 14:31 <A HREF="var/">var/</A>
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