Comment 1 for bug 137785

Hello !

I think i have the same problem as you. When cron starts a cronjob from a user for example,
that returns more than just a status, for example, wget something, than cron starts a child process
that is cron <defunced> from the start and exits a few seconds later, even if the shell script that cron
started is not finished yet.

I tried a lot of stuff to find a solution.

1.

When you want cron to return a lot of data for exmaple lots of status messages,
make sure that a mailer daemon like postfix or exim is installed or at least
a sendmail null daemon, if something like this exists.

2.

When i freshly rebooted the system, just stop and start the cron daemon again one time.
You have to do that after every reboot of course.

This solved my problems with cron.

Hope this helps you too.