diff --git a/install/ensure-correct-permissions-profiles-dir.sh b/install/ensure-correct-permissions-profiles-dir.sh
index 5bdadec..92792b2 100755
--- a/install/ensure-correct-permissions-profiles-dir.sh
+++ b/install/ensure-correct-permissions-profiles-dir.sh
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 echo "${_group}Ensuring correct permissions on profiles directory ..."
 
 # Check if the parent directory of /var/vroom/sentry-profiles is already owned by vroom:vroom
-if [ "$(stat -c '%U:%G' /var/vroom)" = "vroom:vroom" ]; then
-  echo "Ownership of /var/vroom is already set to vroom:vroom. Skipping chown."
+if [ "$($dcr --no-deps --entrypoint /bin/bash --user root vroom -c "stat -c '%U:%G' /var/vroom/sentry-profiles" 2>/dev/null)" = "vroom:vroom" ]; then
+  echo "Ownership of /var/vroom/sentry-profiles is already set to vroom:vroom. Skipping chown."
 else
   $dcr --no-deps --entrypoint /bin/bash --user root vroom -c 'chown -R vroom:vroom /var/vroom/sentry-profiles && chmod -R o+rwx /var/vroom/sentry-profiles'
 fi