diff --git a/openwrt/package/base-files/default/etc/init.d/S60cron b/openwrt/package/base-files/default/etc/init.d/S60cron
index ed43e743d088d9790861881ebf2faf2c1add15ed..6647fe1bc0c9de83a26123784c5ec82325bb1f4e 100755
--- a/openwrt/package/base-files/default/etc/init.d/S60cron
+++ b/openwrt/package/base-files/default/etc/init.d/S60cron
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-[ -d /etc/crontabs ] && crond -c /etc/crontabs
+[ -d /etc/crontabs ] && {
+	mkdir -p /var/spool/cron
+	crond -c /etc/crontabs
+}
diff --git a/openwrt/package/busybox/patches/200-etc_crontabs.patch b/openwrt/package/busybox/patches/200-etc_crontabs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5ec01c1eb0a54edc839e6cf48436d58f3145765a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openwrt/package/busybox/patches/200-etc_crontabs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+diff -urN busybox.old/miscutils/crond.c busybox.dev/miscutils/crond.c
+--- busybox.old/miscutils/crond.c	2004-04-14 19:51:21.000000000 +0200
++++ busybox.dev/miscutils/crond.c	2005-12-11 22:54:07.878256250 +0100
+@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
+ #define arysize(ary)    (sizeof(ary)/sizeof((ary)[0]))
+ 
+ #ifndef CRONTABS
+-#define CRONTABS        "/var/spool/cron/crontabs"
++#define CRONTABS        "/etc/crontabs"
+ #endif
+ #ifndef TMPDIR
+ #define TMPDIR          "/var/spool/cron"
+diff -urN busybox.old/miscutils/crontab.c busybox.dev/miscutils/crontab.c
+--- busybox.old/miscutils/crontab.c	2004-04-14 19:51:21.000000000 +0200
++++ busybox.dev/miscutils/crontab.c	2005-12-11 22:54:28.647554250 +0100
+@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
+ #include <sys/resource.h>
+ 
+ #ifndef CRONTABS
+-#define CRONTABS        "/var/spool/cron/crontabs"
++#define CRONTABS        "/etc/crontabs"
+ #endif
+ #ifndef TMPDIR
+ #define TMPDIR          "/var/spool/cron"