Cron job not exiting in Catalina; leaving zombie processes [duplicate]

Question

I just upgraded to catalina a few days ago. I'm still using bash which has been installed with homebrew.

The ps aux | grep bash command is showing a new bash process is forked every minute. After a few hours I'll have hundreds of bash processes running in the background. Each of these is accompanied by a cron process.

The cron job in crontab -e is:

* * * * * /Users/me/bin/sync_task

This task runs a bash script for syncing my taskwarrior projects:

#!/bin/bash
TASKRC=$HOME/.taskrc_uc_team
/usr/local/bin/task synchronize
unset TASKRC
/usr/local/bin/task synchronize

Does anyone know why the bash and cron processes might not be exiting?

Answer 1

This anser solved this problem for me (redirecting stdout/stderr to /dev/null).