diff --git a/main/atop/APKBUILD b/main/atop/APKBUILD
index c2d72c8fc3a4d42a195b3e619bb79177586eac6b..0915ff3967ede92ac46f6b613b3bfd543a1d099e 100644
--- a/main/atop/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/atop/APKBUILD
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
 pkgname=atop
 pkgver=2.7.1
-pkgrel=0
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Resource-specific view of processes"
 url="https://www.atoptool.nl/"
 arch="all"
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ subpackages="$pkgname-doc $pkgname-openrc"
 source="https://www.atoptool.nl/download/atop-$pkgver.tar.gz
 	atop-daily-bb.patch
 	atop-include-macros.patch
+	make-cron-background.patch
 	atop.initd
 "
 options="suid !check"
@@ -44,5 +45,6 @@ sha512sums="
 f5013dbc25b86f07c9892555705bb3db2eeb949478f53e6e5545308b0c7c173c4c7a8ed0eae1f173e075210f81fceee09d7a9d90de76c4f011e38ad4a76b780b  atop-2.7.1.tar.gz
 664225450074962aac0e13484c9b2feaf08620bbe1e0f9c5dc1b02f1ecd315224cd04df53134f2d107210fc9223a64d8885ae70d33d0663c2335fa6d46f6ddfd  atop-daily-bb.patch
 f30c9e6051332af8c8cafcd881f89a0e2d2a8e1d84eee8ac0c8c6b58f3ae3431fcf9c40dea6d03e271f8969802de449d33b4323c13045bdb38a539732c81a8b6  atop-include-macros.patch
+e563894eceadf63ff153714829218b8f78dd21a129b90817960bdb4452768f41ed884dc9967f94b979e42f04d6434fcbd423bcf1651976a5ad60c34b206ce7e9  make-cron-background.patch
 172c9d367b936427ccbbbd1140c7808ec8ffe3194b3557ba024820dac8fa68c9919f7dc34d332e91283fde64d731db7bdbfee3c2d6caad3cd291e0f1c227cb03  atop.initd
 "
diff --git a/main/atop/make-cron-background.patch b/main/atop/make-cron-background.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a710572cf7bcf5a99121a81a13044a3c815ceb77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/main/atop/make-cron-background.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From a2cd8d902a833e5bec024e81d6361684c1f84e4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: ptrcnull <git@ptrcnull.me>
+Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022 15:33:05 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Make daily atop cron job run in the background
+
+---
+ atop.daily | 7 +++----
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/atop.daily b/atop.daily
+index 55737fd..5e18650 100755
+--- a/atop.daily
++++ b/atop.daily
+@@ -57,8 +57,7 @@ fi
+ #
+ ( (sleep 3; find "$LOGPATH" -name 'atop_*' -mtime +"$LOGGENERATIONS" -exec rm {} \;)& )
+ 
+-# activate atop with an interval of S seconds (configurable),
+-# replacing the current shell
++# activate atop with an interval of S seconds (configurable)
+ #
+-echo $$ > $PIDFILE
+-exec $BINPATH/atop $LOGOPTS -w "$LOGPATH"/atop_"$CURDAY" "$LOGINTERVAL" > "$LOGPATH/daily.log" 2>&1
++$BINPATH/atop $LOGOPTS -w "$LOGPATH"/atop_"$CURDAY" "$LOGINTERVAL" > "$LOGPATH/daily.log" 2>&1 &
++echo $! > $PIDFILE
+-- 
+2.35.1
+