On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 12:11 -0700, Randy Merritt wrote:
> Can someone shed light on what the entries below
> signify in /var/log/messages?  My /var/log/messages
> are now starting to rotate with the *vast* majority of
> the entries like the (cut|paste) sample below.
> 
> It appears cron is involved but I've not found any
> crontab file to drive this.
> 
> 1) Does this "element" need to run this frequently?
>    (every 5 mins)

It would seem that you have a cron job which runs every five minutes.
There is a system crontab file in /etc/crontab.  There are also files
in /var/spool/cron/root, /var/spool/cron/someuser etc.