Question about using anacron with cron

["richbl" <richbl@gmail.com>]

Hello all,

I have a question about cron and anancron.

After reading the man page for both cron/crontab and anacron/
anacrontab, it's not clear to me how to configure for the following:

--jobs to run currently live in /etc/crontab
--jobs need to run serially (hence the staggered start times in
crontab)

As I understand it, anacron will only run those jobs created as
scripts in the **ly folders (e.g. /etc/cron.weekly).

So, my question is this: if I have periodic jobs to run in /etc/
crontab, how do I have anacron run those jobs when cron fails to do so
(e.g. machine turned off)?

It seems to me that the only way anacron will do what I expect it to
do is to move my jobs in /etc/crontab into /etc/cron.daily. Yet, if I
do that, I lose the ability to have jobs run serially (or at least run
the risk of having jobs overlap each other).

Please advise.

Thanks.