diff --git a/meta-balena-common/recipes-connectivity/openvpn/files/openvpn.service b/meta-balena-common/recipes-connectivity/openvpn/files/openvpn.service
index 9adbd18151..59cb7aaf08 100644
--- a/meta-balena-common/recipes-connectivity/openvpn/files/openvpn.service
+++ b/meta-balena-common/recipes-connectivity/openvpn/files/openvpn.service
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ RestartSec=10s
 #Adjust OOMscore to -1000 to disable OOM killing for openvpn
 OOMScoreAdjust=-1000
 PIDFile=/run/openvpn/openvpn.pid
+ExecStartPre=-/bin/systemctl restart os-config
 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/openvpn --writepid /run/openvpn/openvpn.pid --cd /etc/openvpn/ --config /etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf --connect-retry 5 120
 
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