[ale] cron vs shell

[James P. Kinney III]

I have a script that runs perfect from a shell prompt. But when I run it
from cron, it hangs waiting for the first part to finish.

After setting up some variables and getting a list of names and machines
to work on, the script uses ssh to run a remote command to stop a
process, the is scp's the log file from that process to a common
location. Then it restarts the remote machine.

It hangs waiting for the process stop to finish when run as a cron job.
It doesn't when run from the command line. 

What is the difference between the two environments such that a process
stop request will never see it end? I have absolute paths for all the
commands. 
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