How to stop the deluge of entries in /var/log files?

[joe at actionline.com]

While fixing a 'syslog' problem on one of my systems, I just discovered
that on one of my other systems, there has been a deluge of identical
(redundant) entries (for two different topics), each going into several
different files in /var/log and I can't figure out how or find where to
put a stop to it.

Here are just a half-dozen example lines of each topic showing that the
exact same entry for one going in every single minute 24/7 ... that is
60*24=1440 entries every single day for one and a different schedule for
the other.

Example #1:
Feb  4 04:11:01 localhost crond[3125]: (root) CMD (  
/usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh)
Feb  4 04:12:01 localhost crond[3134]: (root) CMD (  
/usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh)
Feb  4 04:13:01 localhost crond[3143]: (root) CMD (  
/usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh)
Feb  4 04:14:01 localhost crond[3152]: (root) CMD (  
/usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh)
Feb  4 04:15:01 localhost crond[3161]: (root) CMD (  
/usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh)
Feb  4 04:16:01 localhost crond[3170]: (root) CMD (  
/usr/share/msec/promisc_check.sh)

Example #2:
Feb  4 04:02:11 localhost msec: Wrong permissions of
/var/log/lpr/info.4.gz: should be 640
Feb  4 04:02:11 localhost msec: Wrong permissions of
/var/log/daemons/info.3.gz: should be 640
Feb  4 04:02:11 localhost msec: Wrong permissions of
/var/log/news/news.notice.3.gz: should be 640
Feb  4 04:02:11 localhost msec: Wrong permissions of
/etc/rc.d/init.d/avahi-daemon: should be 744
Feb  4 04:02:11 localhost msec: Wrong permissions of
/var/log/cron/warnings.5.gz: should be 640
Feb  4 04:02:11 localhost msec: Wrong permissions of
/var/log/cups/error_log: should be 640

How can I stop this?