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I'm sorry, I just realized that the only thing that does not work is user-crontabs. I was assuming they'd be managed by anacron as well but apparently they are not. That explains why @daily did not work as expected, my machine was booting up well after midnight.
If I understand, you are using 'crontab -e' to schedule tasks. The personal crontab explains that these tasks are run by cron, and it mentions the manual pages for crontab(5) and cron(8). When opening /etc/anacrontab, it explains that this is the configuration file for anacron, and it mentions the manual pages for anacrontab(5) and anacron(8).
I did spent a lot of time reading the docs and the config files of cron and anacron and only found this information on stackoverflow. Do you think other bugreports here are related to my misunderstanding? If yes, do you think we should explicitly document this "limitation"?
While it is not explicitly mentioned in /etc/anacrontab that only @monthly is supported, it is documented in the manual page for anacrontab(5). I do not think it needs to be documented further.
As for other bug reports, #920181 [1] is similar to the confusion you have encountered with @daily, which has some good suggestions. However, this bug report #619648 does not look to be the same as the problems you have described. If your issue is not fixed, please file a separate bug report with more information so that it can be properly addressed.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=920181 -- Lance Lin GPG Fingerprint: 4A31 DB5A 1EE4 096C 8739 9880 9036 4929 4C33 F9B7
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