diff --git a/packages/sysutils/busybox/patches/busybox-02_silence-crond-startup-logging.patch b/packages/sysutils/busybox/patches/busybox-02_silence-crond-startup-logging.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..456ec1c487
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/sysutils/busybox/patches/busybox-02_silence-crond-startup-logging.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From 5f4085ddb16c206b1dc36d481c2aa6684ba392ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Stefan Saraev <stefan@saraev.ca>
+Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 19:26:21 +0300
+Subject: [PATCH] silence crond startup logging
+
+---
+ miscutils/crond.c |    1 -
+ 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/miscutils/crond.c b/miscutils/crond.c
+index 582dc99..71514e3 100644
+--- a/miscutils/crond.c
++++ b/miscutils/crond.c
+@@ -883,7 +883,6 @@ int crond_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
+ 	xchdir(G.crontab_dir_name);
+ 	//signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN); /* ? original crond dies on HUP... */
+ 	xsetenv("SHELL", DEFAULT_SHELL); /* once, for all future children */
+-	crondlog(LVL8 "crond (busybox "BB_VER") started, log level %d", G.log_level);
+ 	rescan_crontab_dir();
+ 	write_pidfile(CONFIG_PID_FILE_PATH "/crond.pid");
+ 
+-- 
+1.7.2.5
+