diff --git a/deploy-journald b/deploy-journald
index 73b4f6a..435c74b 100755
--- a/deploy-journald
+++ b/deploy-journald
@@ -15,5 +15,5 @@ for host in ${hosts_all[@]}; do
     sed -i "s/{{journald_system_max_file_size}}/${hosts_journald_system_max_file_size[$host]:-512M}/g" tmp
     rsync tmp $remote:/etc/systemd/journald.conf
     rm tmp
-    ssh $remote systemctl restart systemd-journald
+    ssh $remote systemctl reload systemd-journald
 done