diff --git a/pkgs/tools/system/fcron/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/system/fcron/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7e0f33da349
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/system/fcron/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# I've only worked on this till it compiled and worked. So maybe there are some things which should be done but I've missed
+# restart using 'killall -TERM fcron; fcron -b
+# use convert-fcrontab to update fcrontab files
+
+args:
+args.stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "fcron-3.0.4";
+
+  src = args.fetchurl {
+    url = http://fcron.free.fr/archives/fcron-3.0.4.src.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "15kgphsfa0nqgjd8yxyz947x2xyljj4iyh298kw4c8bz6iznqxn8";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs =(with args; [perl]);
+
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-sendmail=/var/setuid-wrappers/sendmail"
+                    "--with-editor=/var/run/current-system/sw/bin/vi"
+                    "--with-bootinstall=no"
+                    # fcron would have been default user/grp
+                    "--with-username=root"
+                    "--with-groupname=root"
+                  ];
+  preConfigure = ''
+    sed -i 's@/usr/bin/env perl@${args.perl}/bin/perl@g' configure
+    # Don't let fcron create the group fcron, nix(os) should do this
+    sed -i '2s@.*@exit 0@' script/user-group
+
+    # --with-bootinstall=no shoud do this, didn't work. So just exit the script before doing anything
+    sed -i '2s@.*@exit 0@' script/boot-install
+
+    # also don't use chown or chgrp for documentation (or whatever) when installing
+    find -type f | xargs sed -i -e 's@^\(\s\)*chown@\1:@' -e 's@^\(\s\)*chgrp@\1:@'
+  '';
+
+  meta = { 
+      description="A command scheduler with extended capabilities over cron and anacron";
+      homepage =  http://fcron.free.fr;
+      license = "GPLv2";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index d35a551ef76..2de452517d4 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };
 
-  cron = import ../tools/system/cron {
+  cron = import ../tools/system/cron { # see also fcron
     inherit fetchurl;
     stdenv = stdenvNew;
   };
@@ -675,6 +675,10 @@ let
     inherit fetchurl stdenv tcl;
   };
 
+  fcron = import ../tools/system/fcron { # see also cron
+    inherit fetchurl stdenv perl;
+  };
+
   file = import ../tools/misc/file {
     inherit fetchurl stdenv;
   };