Article:		Learning the Mac OS X Terminal, Part 5
Subject:		Sudo and ditto
Date:		2002-07-13 10:04:24
From:		markedwards2
Response to: Sudo and ditto
You need to run the command from root's crontab. You can determine which crontab your are editing with the -u flag: crontab -e -u root Read man crontab

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• Sudo and ditto
  2002-08-07 01:32:12  tjj [View]
  
  
  Right, thanks. That did the trick:)

• Sudo and ditto
  2002-08-07 01:30:28  tjj [View]
  
  
  Right, thanks. That did the trick. Now it runs without choking.
  Ditto copies 1.3 Gb much faster than rsync (RsyncX) synchronizes the same directories with a lot of changes.