diff --git a/roles/bodhi2/backend/files/bodhi-automated-pushes.cron b/roles/bodhi2/backend/files/bodhi-automated-pushes.cron
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ed2d6c5010
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/bodhi2/backend/files/bodhi-automated-pushes.cron
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+MAILTO=sysadmin-releng-members@fedoraproject.org
+14 00 * * * apache /usr/local/bin/bodhi-automated-pushes.py
diff --git a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
index 0f781d3a7e..85016b7a17 100644
--- a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
   - cron
 
 - name: Set the bodhi-automated-pushes cron job
-  template: src=bodhi-automated-pushes.cron.j2 dest=/etc/cron.d/bodhi-automated-pushes
+  copy: src=bodhi-automated-pushes.cron dest=/etc/cron.d/bodhi-automated-pushes
   when: env == "production"
   tags:
   - config
diff --git a/roles/bodhi2/backend/templates/bodhi-automated-pushes.cron.j2 b/roles/bodhi2/backend/templates/bodhi-automated-pushes.cron.j2
deleted file mode 100644
index 4dc15ebd15..0000000000
--- a/roles/bodhi2/backend/templates/bodhi-automated-pushes.cron.j2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-MAILTO=sysadmin-releng-members@fedoraproject.org
-{% if RelEngFrozen %}
-{{ '#' }}14 00 * * * apache /usr/local/bin/bodhi-automated-pushes.py
-{% else %}
-14 00 * * * apache /usr/local/bin/bodhi-automated-pushes.py
-{% endif %}