ccheney seems to have the right idea here. approx no longer runs as its own service; it runs through inetd, which means that it expects stdin and stdout to be a socket, not normal fds (hence why it doesn't work when you launch it manually)
Please check /etc/inetd.conf for the approx configuration, and restart openbsd-inetd to make sure that it's picked up the configuration. ** Changed in: approx (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- approx doesn't work in Karmic/Lucid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/517474 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs