diff --git a/roles/openvpn/client/tasks/main.yml b/roles/openvpn/client/tasks/main.yml
index 781afd1d60..404518d56b 100644
--- a/roles/openvpn/client/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/openvpn/client/tasks/main.yml
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
 #  notify:
 #  - restart openvpn (Fedora)
 #  - restart openvpn (RHEL7)
-  when: (ansible_distribution_major_version|int >= 7 and ansible_distribution == 'RedHat') or (ansible_distribution_major_version|int >= 29 and ansible_distribution == 'Fedora') and ansible_cmdline.ostree is not defined
 
 - name: Make sure openvpn is running in rhel 7+
   service: name=openvpn-client@openvpn state=started enabled=true