I'll have to try using do, and see if I can retain the exit status of my intended script.

I'm trying to avoid forking because there will be a LOT of scripts that're going to be launched from cron, and I'd rather not have two processes per script. As I'm sure the SAs would agree.

In any event, I really don't want to try to replace cron with a custom scheduler system, but we definitely want to track what ran, how it completed, and log it somewhere. This seems like the best approach. Any other ideas?

Thanks