diff --git a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
index 1dca980178..a6fb3f49b8 100644
--- a/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/bodhi2/backend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@
     owner=apache
     group=nrpe
     state=directory
+    recurse=yes
   ignore_errors: true
   notify:
   - restart fedmsg-hub