diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-extended/sysstat/sysstat.inc b/poky/meta/recipes-extended/sysstat/sysstat.inc
index 4e29721..592cbf4 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-extended/sysstat/sysstat.inc
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-extended/sysstat/sysstat.inc
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
 PACKAGECONFIG[lm-sensors] = "--enable-sensors,--disable-sensors,lmsensors,lmsensors-libsensors"
 PACKAGECONFIG[cron] = "--enable-install-cron --enable-copy-only,--disable-install-cron --disable-copy-only"
+PACKAGECONFIG[systemd] = "--with-systemdsystemunitdir=${systemd_system_unitdir}"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-stripping"
 
@@ -44,11 +45,13 @@
 	        install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d
 	        echo "d ${localstatedir}/log/sa - - - -" \
 		     > ${D}${sysconfdir}/tmpfiles.d/sysstat.conf
-	fi
 
-	install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
-	install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/sysstat.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
-	sed -i -e 's#@LIBDIR@#${libdir}#g' ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/sysstat.service
+	        if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'cron', 'false', 'true', d)}; then
+			install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
+			install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/sysstat.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
+			sed -i -e 's#@LIBDIR@#${libdir}#g' ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/sysstat.service
+	        fi
+	fi
 }
 
 pkg_postinst_${PN} () {