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...".
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+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
+
diff --git a/cronie.spec b/cronie.spec
index 8d6a4d2..f54795c 100644
--- a/cronie.spec
+++ b/cronie.spec
@@ -6,11 +6,12 @@
 Summary: Cron daemon for executing programs at set times
 Name: cronie
 Version: 1.4.2
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 License: MIT and BSD and GPLv2
 Group: System Environment/Base
 URL: https://fedorahosted.org/cronie
 Source0: https://fedorahosted.org/releases/c/r/cronie/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0:	cronie-service-stop.patch
 Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
 Requires: syslog, bash >= 2.0
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ overloaded in settings.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 
@@ -173,6 +175,9 @@ cp -a /var/lock/subsys/crond /var/lock/subsys/cronie > /dev/null 2>&1 ||:
 %{_mandir}/man8/anacron.*
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Oct 19 2009 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano@redhat.com> - 1.4.2-2
+- 529632 service crond stop returns appropriate value
+
 * Mon Oct 12 2009 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano@redhat.com> - 1.4.2-1
 - new release