For the list archives - Michael and I did some investigation off-list and it turned out to be Little Snitch blocking the freshclam invocation that wasn't working.
> On Sep 5, 2018, at 10:03 AM, Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> wrote: > Were you able to get this working? > > If not, can you post the complete output from both the successful and > unsuccessful runs? > >> On Aug 20, 2018, at 7:51 PM, Michael Newman via macports-users >> <macports-users@lists.macports.org> wrote: >> If I run freshclam as a non-privileged user, it runs fine with no warnings >> or error messages. Here’s the last line of the response: -- Daniel J. Luke