diff --git a/manifests/tmpfiles.pp b/manifests/tmpfiles.pp
index c5eacb7337dfe1fa079379188691d7a9b2c71563..e86700b2854fd5620b5449740a2f517ad4c176e6 100644
--- a/manifests/tmpfiles.pp
+++ b/manifests/tmpfiles.pp
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class systemd::tmpfiles::trigger
     exec {
 	'systemd::tmpfiles::trigger':
 	    command => shellquote(
-		'systemd-tmpfiles', '--create', '--remove', '--clean'),
+		'systemd-tmpfiles', '--create', '--clean'),
 	    path => [ '/bin', '/usr/bin', '/sbin', '/usr/sbin', ],
 	    refreshonly => true;
     }