timeLoop

I'm not familiar with AnacronX, and searching for it didn't turn up anything, but if you're talking about anacron - several differences. anacron can only run jobs that were missed a day or more ago. timeLoop will run a job that was missed 1 second ago. anacron uses its own file, which is mostly like the file cron uses. timeLoop directly reads crontab files. anacron must be run manually - you can set it to run every minute with cron (this is what is usually done). timeLoop is a daemon - it's always running. Like anacron, though, timeLoop is not a replacement for cron. It doesn't attempt to run jobs when they are scheduled, only if the job was missed. In a nutshell: with anacron you have to add jobs to its own file for them to be run if they were missed, plus you have to either manually run anacron or set it as a cron job. With timeLoop, you install it and forget about it. It just works. You can read the source of my info on anacron - http://anacron.sourceforge.net If this isn't what you are talking about, my apologies. Point me to where I can read about AnacronX at.