How to start program in cron script?

[news.spiegl@kascada.com (Andy Spiegl)]

Hi!

I am giving up.  For at least an hour I tried to write a
shell script (t obe run by cron) that start another program
and sends it into the background.

For example, I tried:

#! /bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/myprogram &

or:

#! /bin/sh
nohup /usr/local/bin/myprogram &

But no matter how I did it, I ended up with the program running
as it should but the starting shell script (let's call it test.sh)
became a zombie:  Output from "ps auxwwwww":

 spiegl   32585  1.7  0.0     0     0 Z      0:00 (test.sh <zombie>)

What am I doing wrong???  Please someone enlighten me!

Thanks so much,
 Andy.

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