diff --git a/roles/copr/base/files/sysconfig.crond b/roles/copr/base/files/sysconfig.crond
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c5006e8c69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/copr/base/files/sysconfig.crond
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# use syslog, don't spawn sysadmins for now
+CRONDARGS=-s
diff --git a/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/files/crond b/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/files/crond
deleted file mode 100644
index 25483f778e..0000000000
--- a/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/files/crond
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-# Settings for the CRON daemon.
-# CRONDARGS= :  any extra command-line startup arguments for crond
-CRONDARGS=
-MAILTO=sysadmin-copr-members@fedoraproject.org
diff --git a/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/tasks/main.yml b/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/tasks/main.yml
index bc2c3e7018..89c45b637f 100644
--- a/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/copr/frontend-cloud/tasks/main.yml
@@ -66,9 +66,6 @@
   tags:
   - config
 
-- name: copy crond conf
-  copy: src="crond" dest="/etc/sysconfig/crond"
-
 - name: copy apache files to conf.d (templates)
   template: src="httpd/{{ item }}" dest="/etc/httpd/conf.d/{{ item }}"
   with_items:
@@ -125,6 +122,9 @@
   tags:
   - config
 
+- name: configure crond
+  copy: src=sysconfig.crond dest=/etc/sysconfig/crond
+
 - name: enable services
   service: state=started enabled=yes name={{ item }}
   with_items: