Hmm, that's odd, it should not work. From the crontab documentation (man page): "Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields -- day of month, and day of week. If both fields are restricted (ie, aren't *), the command will be run when _either_ field matches the current time. For example, ``30 4 1,15 * 5'' would cause a command to be run at 4:30 am on the 1st and 15th of each month, plus every Friday." So the example below would run every Saturday plus 8th-14th of the month, not what you want. A quick search of Google gives you something better, like this: 0 1 8-14 * * [ "$(date +\%a)" == "Sat" ] && script_with_no_date_logic Prem Khanna J wrote: > Hi Charlotte/Gillies, > > Thanks for your help. it works : ) > [...] > On 5/23/05, Charlotte Hammond <charlottejanehammond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Hi Prem, >>Something like this (1am on 2nd Saturday): >>00 01 8,9,10,11,12,13,14 * 6 /app/my_saturday_job.sh >>HTH, >>Charlotte [...] -- Mark Bole http://www.bincomputing.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l