diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0dff2c1c..78d41498 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ The **patch** part is incremented if multiple releases happen the same month
 
 * autosysadmin-agent: upstream release 24.03.2
 * evolinux-base: Add new variable to disable global customisation of bash config
+* evolinux-base: Disable logcheck monitoring of journald only if journald.logfiles exists
 * roundcube: Use /var/log/roundcube directly
 * evolinux-users: Add sudo mvcli for nagios user
 * vrrpd : configure and restart minifirewall before starting VRRP
diff --git a/evolinux-base/tasks/logs.yml b/evolinux-base/tasks/logs.yml
index b8838c9e..ce796d6c 100644
--- a/evolinux-base/tasks/logs.yml
+++ b/evolinux-base/tasks/logs.yml
@@ -64,12 +64,19 @@
   when: evolinux_logs_default_dateext | bool
 
 # Logcheck
+- name: Check if journald.logfiles exists
+  stat:
+    path: /etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/journal.logfiles
+  register: _logcheck_journald_logfiles
+
 - name: Disable logcheck monitoring of journald
   ansible.builtin.lineinfile:
     dest: /etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/journal.logfiles
     line: "#journal"
     regexp: "^journal"
-  when: evolinux_logs_disable_logcheck_journald | bool
+  when:
+    - _logcheck_journald_logfiles.stat.exists
+    - evolinux_logs_disable_logcheck_journald | bool
 
 # Journald
 - name: /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/ is present