Al Varnell wrote: > It appears to me from your other thread that you are using a Homebrew > compiled installation. If that is the case, then you need to contact the > package distributor (Homebrew) about any issues with their compilation. Actually, it’s MacPorts, but, point taken. I’ve posted this inquiry on their mailing list. > But I really don't understand why you want to use sudo if everything is > working for you. I personally never use sudo and never have seen a need to. I "want" to use sudo because everything I’ve read says that’s what to do. For example, this in the GitHub FAQ: > After ClamAV is installed, then what? How do I update / refresh the virus > database? > You will need to edit the freshclam.conf.example file located in > /usr/local/etc. Once that is done, you will need to run a 'sudo freshclam' to > download the signatures. You will need to run the command to update > signatures often so that ClamAV has the most up to date signatures.
But, since you say that sudo is not necessary and because it doesn’t work, I won’t use it anymore. Thanks for your advice. Mike
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