Cron/Sendmail Defunct Processes

[Schiz0]

Hey everyone,

I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 Server Edition. I have a cron script (
http://pastebin.ca/803903 ). I edited crontab using "crontab -e"
(Running as the ircd user) and added the line (
http://pastebin.ca/805617 ). I have exim4 installed and running (I
have send emails successfully from command line and also php scripts).
It was installed and configured via apt-get and dpkg.

My problem is as follows: When the anope services daemon is not
running, the cron script starts it, and outputs some text (Which I
want to to be emailed to me). But instead of emailing the output to
me, cron opens up defunct zombie processes for sh and sendmail and I
must kill the cron process to get rid of other processes.

The output of "ps -ef" showing the defunct processes is at
http://pastebin.ca/803916
The sendmail process stays there until I kill the "/USR/SBIN/CRON" process.

I tested this by manually stopping the anope services, then waiting 10
minutes for the cron script to run. The cron script runs, and the
services start back up, but I never get the email from the output of
the cron script. The sendmail process that started from cron freezes
up somehow for some reason and becomes a defunct zombie process.

Basically all I want is to be notified with the output of cron. I
don't know if this is a cron problem or a exim4 problem.

I tested this with both the sendmail MTA and the exim4 MTA. They both
did the same exact, which makes me suspect more so that it is some
sort of cron setting that I have misconfigured.

Thank you for everyone's time and responses.
~Schiz0

PS. I also posted this on the ubuntu forums.