[mythtv-users] Daily cron jobs not running on MythBackend

[Raymond Wagner]

On 2/16/2014 5:23 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:
> So it looks like anacron isn't activated, doesn't it?  Does this
> following command confirm that, or does it show that it's just waiting
> in the background for the appropriate time to run again?
>
> $ service anacron status
> anacron stop/waiting
>
> Sorry for the dumb question, but how do I activate anacron?

Is there any reason to use anacron, as opposed to just standard cron? 
Is this a system that will frequently be powered off?