I have noticed this issue as well on Squeeze. So far I have discovered
that removing --report from the run-parts options in /etc/crontab
gets the cron.{hourly,daily} to complete without any hangups or defunct
processes.I found this fairly old bug which seems similar: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=114864 -Rohan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

