Hey Halftux, thanks a million for looking into this and sorry for the late feedback. Weekends are the busiest time. During the week I can (sometimes) steal some time from my employer but stealing it from the family is a bit more difficult
Unfortunately, neither a downgrade to 0.0.4 nor an upgrade to 0.0.8 and adding the --script option has made any difference. The script still freezes when launched from cron.