diff --git a/scripts/system/libreportal-relocate b/scripts/system/libreportal-relocate
index dadce92..f18769d 100755
--- a/scripts/system/libreportal-relocate
+++ b/scripts/system/libreportal-relocate
@@ -235,6 +235,23 @@ if [[ -f "$COMPOSE" ]]; then
     ok "WebUI compose bind-mounts"
 fi
 
+# ---- 4b. the manager's crontab ------------------------------------------------
+# The @reboot boot-reconcile entry embeds an absolute path under the SYSTEM dir
+# ("${install_scripts_dir}crontab/system/crontab_boot_app_reconcile.sh"). Move
+# that root and the path stops existing — and the entry is redirected to
+# /dev/null, so nothing reports it. The only symptom is that apps quietly do not
+# come back after a reboot, which is easy to blame on anything else.
+if crontab -u "$MANAGER" -l >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    crontab -u "$MANAGER" -l > "$BACKUP_DIR/crontab.$MANAGER" 2>/dev/null
+    if sed -e "s#${CUR_SYSTEM}#${FIN_SYSTEM}#g" \
+           -e "s#${CUR_CONTAINERS}#${FIN_CONTAINERS}#g" \
+           "$BACKUP_DIR/crontab.$MANAGER" | crontab -u "$MANAGER" - 2>/dev/null; then
+        ok "manager crontab"
+    else
+        warn "could not rewrite ${MANAGER}'s crontab — check 'crontab -l -u $MANAGER'"
+    fi
+fi
+
 # ---- 5. ownership on the new trees -------------------------------------------
 say "Reconciling ownership"
 "$LIB_DIR/libreportal-ownership" reconcile >/dev/null 2>&1 && ok "ownership reconciled" \