diff --git a/SD_ROOT/wz_mini/etc/crontab/start_cron.sh b/SD_ROOT/wz_mini/etc/crontab/start_cron.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2e0f28d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SD_ROOT/wz_mini/etc/crontab/start_cron.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh 
+##Verify the network is up before continuing
+until ping -c1 www.google.com >/dev/null 2>&1; do :; done
+ 
+/opt/wz_mini/tmp/.bin/crond -b -c /opt/wz_mini/etc/crontab/
+
+touch /tmp/test_hosts
+echo 127.0.0.1 localhost >>/tmp/test_hosts
+dns=$(cat /etc/resolv.conf | egrep -o '([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}' | head -1)
+server=$(nslookup c1ybkrkbr1j10x.credentials.iot.us-west-2.amazonaws.com $dns | awk -F': ' 'NF==2 { print $2 } ' | head -1)
+echo $server c1ybkrkbr1j10x.credentials.iot.us-west-2.amazonaws.com >>/tmp/test_hosts
+mount --bind /tmp/test_hosts /etc/hosts