How can I send ALL cron output to syslog rather than email

I am running cron with -m off to stop it sending email and then the -s option is supposed to send all output to syslog.

Cron cmdline is

crond -s -m off

My cron job for testing this is

* * * * * root /bin/echo hello

What I see in /var/log/cron is

Jun 17 17:06:01 www08 CROND[4165]: h<FF>

Basically all I get is the first character h and then <FF>

If I change the cron job to be

* * * * * root /bin/echo world

Then I get the first character w and then <FF>

Ultimately, what I am after is a way of getting all output from cronjobs logged to syslog so that I can manage them with our log alerting system.

I dont want to modify all the cron jobs as some are put there automatically from rpm packages and others by different departments. I am after a solution that sorts this issue once and for all rather than constantly appending 2>&1 | logger -t myscriptname to the end of every cron job on 100 machines