Clams.....

[Pete Geenhuizen]

This is a directory listing of your home directory.  Try ls -l 
/etc/fresh*, if it's still there you need to edit that file.  The file 
is owned by root, therefore you won't be able to edit it as yourself but 
will need to edit it as root.

To edit the file as root you have a choice, either use sudo or if you 
remember root's password you can do that as well, using sudo is probably 
your best choice.

I'm a vi user, so I can't give you the specifics of how to use nano, 
pico, of gedit for that matter, other than the specific editor commands 
the process is the same

sudo <your editor> /etc/freshclam.conf
Comment out the by placing # in front of the word Example, should be 
about 8 lines down, it should look like this
#Example
Save the file and exit the editor

An alternative is to use sed
sudo sed -i /etc/freshclam.conf -e's/^Example/#Example/'

You can then check to make sure that all went as expected with
head /etc/freshclam.conf.

Once that is done you should then be good to go.

I hope that that helps.

On 09/08/2012 11:37 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> On 09/08/2012 11:06 PM, Doug wrote:
> This is odd....I KNOW the file is there because I've navigated to it 
> using Nautilus and SEE it with my own eyes....but it WON'T show in a 
> Terminal?...even AFTER I've entered the commands for listing files?
>
> total 564
> drwx------. 37 janus janus   4096 Sep  8 23:34 .
> drwxr-xr-x.  4 root  root    4096 Feb  3  2012 ..
> drwx------.  3 janus janus   4096 Aug  4 20:46 .adobe
> -rw-------.  1 janus janus   1485 Sep  8 23:34 .bash_history
> snip
>
>
> EGO II

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