diff --git a/image/services/cron/cron.runit b/image/services/cron/cron.runit
index ddd0a0f..e0fbe8e 100755
--- a/image/services/cron/cron.runit
+++ b/image/services/cron/cron.runit
@@ -1,2 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
+
+# Touch cron files to fix 'NUMBER OF HARD LINKS > 1' issue. See  https://github.com/phusion/baseimage-docker/issues/198
+touch -c /var/spool/cron/crontabs/*
+touch -c /etc/crontab
+touch -c /etc/cron.d/* /etc/cron.daily/* /etc/cron.hourly/* /etc/cron.monthly/* /etc/cron.weekly/*
+
 exec /usr/sbin/cron -f