The /etc/cron.daily/fixfiles.cron send a message on stdout: logging to /dev/null Null message body; hope that's ok then this message is send to root from cron every day ... Perhaps it would be better to avoid useless messages with a: /sbin/fixfiles -l /dev/null -o $OUTFILE $CRONTYPE >/dev/null or modify the /sbin/fixfiles script. Thanks -- Dario Lesca <d.lesca@xxxxxxxxxx>