diff --git a/cronie-service-stop.patch b/cronie-service-stop.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fe91673
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cronie-service-stop.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From 1a732d69938788dde2f1a8bf3ae1b9dc48d10c99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: HONDA Hirofumi <honda.hirofumi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
+Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:25:15 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] When parent crond is stopped and child crond (executing program) is running,"service crond status" reports "crond (pid  XXX) is running...".
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+
+Signed-off-by: Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano@redhat.com>
+---
+ cronie.init |    2 +-
+ 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/cronie.init b/cronie.init
+index 0d98159..446607e 100755
+--- a/cronie.init
++++ b/cronie.init
+@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ force_reload() {
+ 
+ rh_status() {
+     # run checks to determine if the service is running or use generic status
+-    status $prog
++    status -p /var/run/crond.pid $prog
+ }
+ 
+ rh_status_q() {
+-- 
+1.6.5.rc2
+