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[Christian Kastner <1280808@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The feature you are describing is the exact purpose of anacron. Could
you elaborate what you mean by "hasn't the precision of cron"? What can
cron do that you can't do with /etc/anacrontab?

BTW, it doesn't make sense for anacron to be a full-time daemon, because
when the system is up, you already have the cron daemon executing your
jobs.

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Title:
  Support for afterwards execution of missing jobs

Status in “cron” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 dev with cron 3.0pl1-124ubuntu2 and maybe cron
  can get the ability to run missing jobs on booting like anacron. The
  question why I'm not using anacron: It has limitations as it is not a
  full time deamon and hasn't the precision of cron. For example if I'm
  defining a job to run every day at 02:30 but the computer gets a power
  loss at 2:29 and is online at 2:31 it would be nice if cron does
  calculate on startup if there were jobs that had to be executed. For
  this case cron needs to store the last execution time of a job and an
  extra column on the job entry as option list to en-/disable this
  feature.

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