diff --git a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
index 43dbbae16f..4ed0b65bd2 100644
--- a/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/pagure/frontend/tasks/main.yml
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
   - restart pagure_milter
 
 - name: Set pagure_milter to run on boot
-  service: name=pagure_milter enabled=yes
+  service: name=pagure_milter enabled=yes state=running
   ignore_errors: true
   notify:
   - restart pagure_milter