Anacron for non-root users?

[Adam Funk]

On 2007-03-06, Alan Pope wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:22:44AM +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
>> As far as I can tell, anacron only picks up the jobs in cron.daily,
>> cron.hourly, cron.monthly and cron.weekly and runs them as root.  Is
>> there any way for non-root users to set up periodic jobs that get
>> picked up by anacron and run under their accounts?
>> 
>
> crontab -e
>
> Is the command a user can run which allows them to setup their own cron jobs.

Right, but those are run only when the exact time conditions are met
and the computer is switched on --- whereas anacron tests more
frequently than once a day how long it's been since the daily jobs
were run (for example).