[clamav-users] freshclam vs sudo freshclam

[Michael Newman]

> As previously observed, depending on installation permissions, some of us need sudo and others do not.

Turns out this had nothing to do with permissions and everything to do with Little Snitch.

For reasons that remain a mystery to me, sometime while I was away from home Little Snitch started blocking outgoing traffic from freshclam. (Why wait until I was away?)

By the time I got home, the Little Snitch notification was gone. I didn’t notice the problem until I checked Little Snitch’s unapproved rules. The rule on freshclam is a code signature violation.

I have changed the rule to allow outgoing connections by freshclam. I can now run freshclam as me without error:

MrMuscle:~ mnewman$ freshclam
ClamAV update process started at Thu Sep  6 12:04:22 2018
main.cvd is up to date (version: 58, sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr)
Downloading daily-24906.cdiff [100%]
daily.cld updated (version: 24906, sigs: 2076062, f-level: 63, builder: neo)
bytecode.cvd is up to date (version: 327, sigs: 91, f-level: 63, builder: neo)
Database updated (6642402 signatures) from db.US.clamav.net (IP: 104.16.186.138)
Clamd successfully notified about the update.
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