[PLUG] Mail log reporting: cron issue?

[Joe Pruett]

>   Nothing is sent to /var/log/cron; all to /var/log/messages. Yes, I do see
> entries in /var/log/maillog that are from root and appear to be at the
> proper time ... when a message appears in my inbox.

are there entries in /var/log/maillog that are not reflected in your 
procmail log?  is cron actually logging in messages?  do you see things 
like:

May 22 03:01:01 charon crond[12717]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
May 22 04:01:01 charon crond[12832]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
May 22 04:02:01 charon crond[12842]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.daily)
May 22 04:02:01 charon anacron[12848]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.daily' to 2009-05-22
May 22 05:01:01 charon crond[13481]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
May 22 06:01:01 charon crond[13585]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
May 22 07:01:01 charon crond[13696]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
May 22 08:01:01 charon crond[13811]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)