diff --git a/package/busybox/busybox-1.13.1-crond.patch b/package/busybox/busybox-1.13.1-crond.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ca7e79c44b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/busybox/busybox-1.13.1-crond.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- busybox-1.13.1/miscutils/crond.c	Sun Nov  9 18:28:17 2008
++++ busybox-1.13.1-crond/miscutils/crond.c	Thu Dec  4 14:56:10 2008
+@@ -779,6 +779,8 @@
+ 			xmove_fd(mailFd, mail_filename ? 1 : 0);
+ 			dup2(1, 2);
+ 		}
++		/* crond 3.0pl1-100 puts tasks in separate process groups */
++		bb_setpgrp();
+ 		execlp(prog, prog, cmd, arg, NULL);
+ 		crondlog(ERR20 "can't exec, user %s cmd %s %s %s", user, prog, cmd, arg);
+ 		if (mail_filename) {
+@@ -914,6 +916,8 @@
+ 		if (DebugOpt) {
+ 			crondlog(LVL5 "child running %s", DEFAULT_SHELL);
+ 		}
++		/* crond 3.0pl1-100 puts tasks in separate process groups */
++		bb_setpgrp();
+ 		execl(DEFAULT_SHELL, DEFAULT_SHELL, "-c", line->cl_Shell, NULL);
+ 		crondlog(ERR20 "can't exec, user %s cmd %s %s %s", user,
+ 				 DEFAULT_SHELL, "-c", line->cl_Shell);