diff --git a/recipes/hadoop_mapreduce_historyserver.rb b/recipes/hadoop_mapreduce_historyserver.rb
index 0d00691..5e75665 100644
--- a/recipes/hadoop_mapreduce_historyserver.rb
+++ b/recipes/hadoop_mapreduce_historyserver.rb
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
   timeout 300
   user 'hdfs'
   group 'hdfs'
-  not_if "hdfs dfs -test -d #{jhs_intermediate_done_dir}", :user => 'hdfs'
+  not_if "hdfs dfs -test -d #{jhs_done_dir}", :user => 'hdfs'
   action :nothing
 end