From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon May 30 09:25:48 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4UEPmUC015780 for ; Mon, 30 May 2005 09:25:48 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4UEPmNi015776 for ; Mon, 30 May 2005 09:25:48 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 1D56A1B7FF7; Mon, 30 May 2005 08:22:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08227-10; Mon, 30 May 2005 08:22:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 928371B7FE4; Mon, 30 May 2005 08:22:45 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=m903ABYM6zqkDJAZArLF28/JqRnODSHD1sIKnFjEJziHCno/AfIQ3ujEbuM4hFy9SP8nv/TATPrhFWIPxyql+C56Q4fLYQK9NOwXLFAlFtCLsjIscKiKktbNt/YGYpxXsNW3CSzvpsT4e5UwWv+3XprrULV9tS+thMEUwrmU274= Message-ID: <5e30486205053006201582d639@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 21:20:56 +0800 From: Connor McDonald To: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: how to schedule a job on second saturday using cron ? In-Reply-To: <4298C670.8030408@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050523144604.84491.qmail@web20709.mail.yahoo.com> <56d3d5610505240347150344fd@mail.gmail.com> <4298C670.8030408@pacbell.net> X-archive-position: 20424 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: mcdonald.connor@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: mcdonald.connor@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,LINES_OF_YELLING autolearn=ham version=2.63 Use the scheduler in 10g=20 FREQ=3DMONTHLY; BYDAY=3D2SAT easy as that... :-) On 5/29/05, Mark Bole wrote: > Hmm, that's odd, it should not work. From the crontab documentation > (man page): >=20 > "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." >=20 --=20 Connor McDonald =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D email: connor_mcdonald@yahoo.com web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk "Semper in excremento, sole profundum qui variat" -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l