diff --git a/roles/logdetective/tasks/main.yml b/roles/logdetective/tasks/main.yml
index 742f0daada..95a093a298 100644
--- a/roles/logdetective/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/logdetective/tasks/main.yml
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@
       ansible.builtin.lineinfile:
         path: /etc/profile.d/models.sh
         line: export MODELS_PATH=/mnt/srv/models/
+        create: true
 
     # TODO Configure Podman to store data on our secondary drive in
     # /mnt/srv/containers_storage/