diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index e2ab87273..95280d63b 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -2275,3 +2275,4 @@ seen. gmtime warning still there
 - Fixed a problem with a fix for +b/+e reported by AngryWolf (#0001117)
 - Fixed a documentation typo reported by Z3l3zT (#0001066)
 - Clarified what ban server {} does, suggested by Joolz (#0001110)
+- Fixed a problem related to crontab reported by LRL (#0001034)
diff --git a/autoconf/configure.in b/autoconf/configure.in
index 85149eec9..8ca516f45 100644
--- a/autoconf/configure.in
+++ b/autoconf/configure.in
@@ -384,5 +384,6 @@ dnl make
 dnl AC_MSG_RESULT(installing TRE regex library)
 dnl make install
 dnl cd $cur_dir
-AC_OUTPUT(Makefile src/modules/Makefile unreal)
+AC_OUTPUT(Makefile src/modules/Makefile unreal ircdcron/ircdchk)
 chmod 0700 unreal
+chmod 0700 ircdcron/ircdchk
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 52e4d447b..b14fa80b3 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -9963,7 +9963,7 @@ if test `uname -p` = "ppc" ; then
  fi
 fi
 
-ac_config_files="$ac_config_files Makefile src/modules/Makefile unreal"
+ac_config_files="$ac_config_files Makefile src/modules/Makefile unreal ircdcron/ircdchk"
 cat >confcache <<\_ACEOF
 # This file is a shell script that caches the results of configure
 # tests run on this system so they can be shared between configure
@@ -10437,6 +10437,7 @@ do
   "Makefile" ) CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES Makefile" ;;
   "src/modules/Makefile" ) CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES src/modules/Makefile" ;;
   "unreal" ) CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES unreal" ;;
+  "ircdcron/ircdchk" ) CONFIG_FILES="$CONFIG_FILES ircdcron/ircdchk" ;;
   "include/setup.h" ) CONFIG_HEADERS="$CONFIG_HEADERS include/setup.h" ;;
   *) { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: invalid argument: $ac_config_target" >&5
 echo "$as_me: error: invalid argument: $ac_config_target" >&2;}
@@ -10982,3 +10983,4 @@ if test "$no_create" != yes; then
 fi
 
 chmod 0700 unreal
+chmod 0700 ircdcron/ircdchk
diff --git a/ircdcron/ircdchk b/ircdcron/ircdchk.in
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
similarity index 82%
rename from ircdcron/ircdchk
rename to ircdcron/ircdchk.in
index 2e2556baa..088927106
--- a/ircdcron/ircdchk
+++ b/ircdcron/ircdchk.in
@@ -17,19 +17,17 @@
 #    0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * *   /home/mydir/ircdchk >/dev/null 2>&1
 #
 # change this to the mail address to mail output to:
-MAIL=me
-# change this to the directory you run your ircd from:
-dir="../src"
+# MAIL=me
 
-# change this to the name of your ircd's file in that directory:
-ircdexe="ircd"
+# These values shouldn't need to be changed
 
-# I wouldn't touch this if I were you.
-ircdname="../ircd.pid"
+# The path to the ircd binary
+ircdexe="@BINDIR@"
+
+# The path to the ircd pid file
+ircdname="@IRCDDIR@/ircd.pid"
 
 ########## you probably don't need to change anything below here ##########
-
-cd $dir
 if test -r $ircdname; then
   # there is a pid file -- is it current?
   ircdpid=`cat $ircdname`
@@ -46,4 +44,4 @@ fi
 echo ""
 echo "Couldn't find the ircd running.  Reloading it..."
 echo ""
-./$ircdexe
+$ircdexe