diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index 83d6cc438..00d583ff4 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ post_to_3.2.0() {
  # but does not chown the elastic-agent launcher symlink. 
  # Preventing non-root users from following that launcher symlink.
 disable_sysctl_fs_protected_symlink() {
-  salt -C 'I@stig:enabled' state.single sysctl.present name=fs.protected_symlinks value=0 config=/etc/sysctl.conf
+  salt -C 'I@stig:enabled' state.single sysctl.present name=fs.protected_symlinks value=0 config=/etc/sysctl.conf || true
 }
     
 up_to_3.3.0() {