Am I trying to connect to a TLS-enabled daemon without TLS?

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I’m trying to learn about Docker, but I keep getting cryptic (to me) error messages.

Possibly the simplest example of this is trying to print the version of Docker I installed:

$ sudo docker version
Client version: 1.4.1
Client API version: 1.16
Go version (client): go1.3.3
Git commit (client): 5bc2ff8
OS/Arch (client): darwin/amd64
FATA[0000] Get http:///var/run/docker.sock/v1.16/version:
    dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: no such file or directory.
    Are you trying to connect to a TLS-enabled daemon without TLS?

I’ve just been going through the user guide and following every step exactly, so I’m surprised that I get this message… What should I do now?

I just noticed that if I don’t use sudo I don’t get the error:

$ docker version
Client version: 1.4.1
Client API version: 1.16
Go version (client): go1.3.3
Git commit (client): 5bc2ff8
OS/Arch (client): darwin/amd64
Server version: 1.4.1
Server API version: 1.16
Go version (server): go1.3.3
Git commit (server): 5bc2ff8

Of course, this is not a solution as I may need to use sudo somewhere down the road…

I just found another page saying “If you’re using OS X then you shouldn’t use sudo.” I don’t know if they mean only for that example, or in general.

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