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Originally Posted by jlslhills
cron: The previous message is the standard output
and standard error of one of the cron commands.
I have SNIPped the important part of the message you received: when a process started by cron produces output it gets sent by mail to the user - in this case root because it was roots crontab which started the job.
Note the time you received the mail, have a look at your root crontab ("view /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root") and from the time you should be able to deduce which job created the message.
bakunin