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[Sworddragon <1280808@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Could you elaborate what you mean by "hasn't the precision of cron"?

If I remember correctly it was not possible to define the exact minute
which must pass when offline after a job should be executed after
booting.

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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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