Something executing the crontab command at the time of boot up. How to determine it?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • According to /var/log/cron, something executing the crontab command at the time of boot up.

    Jan 17 11:48:48 hostname crontab[2265]: (root) BEGIN EDIT (root)
    Jan 17 11:48:48 hostname crontab[2265]: (root) END EDIT (root)
    Jan 17 11:48:48 hostname crontab[2272]: (root) REPLACE (root)
    
  • There is no such script of configuration.

  • How to determine it?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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