Intermittent cron error?

What type of hardware are you using: Old laptop or computer
What YunoHost version are you running: 12.1.40.1
How are you able to access your server: SSH
Are you in a special context or did you perform specific tweaking on your YunoHost instance ?: No

Describe your issue

Hello everyone…

I have a regular cron job that backs up the whole system every week and the user data and email every morning. The backup cron job works, as I see the backups in the Backup list in the web GUI, and when I SSH in see them with the correct JSON files in yunohost.backup. Root also receives an email that the backup has been done.

However, I do get an intermittent email like this:

From: Cron Daemon root@xxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk
Subject: Date: Cron test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || { cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily; }
13 August 2026 at 6:57 am
To: root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk
/etc/cron.daily/node_update:
/etc/cron.daily/node_update: line 3: /opt/node_n/node_update.sh: No such file or directory
run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/node_update exited with return code 127>

I’ve looked around in all of these file locations:
/usr/sbin/anacron No file exists
/etc/cron.daily/node_update: File exists but is empty
/etc/cron.daily/node_update Fle exits but is empty

I’m not overly concerned about the email, but I’d like to know why it’s happening. The backups happen when cron tells them to; they are there, and everything else is working just fine.

Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.

Many thanks

Dj

Share relevant logs or error messages

None.

Should have been deleted a while ago. You can safely delete it

@jarod5001 Great. Thanks very much. It’s very the email pops up.

I’ll get rid of it next time I’m doing a bit of maintenance.

Very best wishes

Dj