Cron and Anacron for newbies (noffle also)

[Scotty Fitzgerald <sfitz007@bestweb.net>]

I was wondering if anybody could point me to a faq for cron and anacron?

Reason I ask is because I am getting into noffle and the doc says to run an 
expire every day.  I noticed just such a command on a directory called 
/etc/cron.daily/

So I also, (in addition to the faq) would like to know,

1) how do I verify that one of the jobs in /etc/cron.daily/ ran to 
successful completion

2) How can I migrate the running of these jobs to anacron, as my personal 
computer is not a 24/7 uptime system.

Thanks for any and all responses!
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Scotty