anacron: missing, or do you use some other mechanism?

[Martin Maney]

Although our desktops here at the home/office are usually left on 24x7,
our laptops and some others aren't; likewise many of the end-user boxes
Ubuntu is targeted at would likely be shutdown overnight and other
times.  I've always used anacron to accomodate this sort of usage in the
past, to get logs rotated and so forth, and IME it works pretty well. 
But anacron is only in universe in the warty repository, so obviously
it's not used in a normal install.  Is this an oversight, or does
Ubuntu use some other solution to the problem of getting periodic
maintenance done on machine that aren't up and running 24x7?

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