[Sussex] Regular scheduled jobs?

[John D.]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 22:36 +0100, Geoffrey J Teale wrote:
> John,
> 
> Just to add to what's already been said.  If you have cron jobs set
> up, but your machine might now be turned on when the jobs are set to
> run, you should take a look at anacron in addition to whichever cron
> daemon you are running.
> 
> Anacron makes sure that those missed jobs get done.

So is Anacron actually different from "plain" cron? Because I found a
link which suggested using "vixie" cron (not that I understood what it
said, it was written in "technospeak" - still, British Rail!).

regards

John D.