diff --git a/cfg/rippled-example.service b/cfg/rippled-example.service
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index 1c08835344..0000000000
--- a/cfg/rippled-example.service
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@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=Ripple Peer-to-Peer Network Daemon
- 
-[Service]
-Type=simple
-User=nobody
-ExecStart=/usr/bin/rippled --conf=/etc/rippled/rippled.cfg
- 
-[Install]
-WantedBy=multi-user.target
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diff --git a/cfg/rippled.init b/cfg/rippled.init
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index 7aba5d9f27..0000000000
--- a/cfg/rippled.init
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@@ -1,114 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-### BEGIN INIT INFO
-# Provides:          ripple
-# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
-# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
-# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
-# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
-# Short-Description: starts the ripple network node
-# Description:       starts rippled using start-stop-daemon
-### END INIT INFO
-
-set -e
-
-NAME=rippled
-USER="rippled"
-GROUP="rippled"
-PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
-DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/rippled
-DAEMON_OPTS="--conf /etc/ripple/rippled.cfg"
-NET_OPTS="--net $DAEMON_OPTS"
-LOGDIR="/var/log/rippled"
-DBDIR="/var/db/rippled/db/hyperldb"
-
-export PATH="${PATH:+$PATH:}/usr/sbin:/sbin"
-
-# I wish it didn't come down to this, but this is the easiest way to ensure
-# sanity of an install.
-if [ ! -d $LOGDIR ]; then
-	mkdir -p $LOGDIR
-	chown $USER:$GROUP $LOGDIR
-fi
-if [ ! -d $DBDIR ]; then
-	mkdir -p $DBDIR
-	chown -R $USER:$GROUP $DBDIR
-fi
-
-case "$1" in
-    start)
-        echo -n "Starting daemon: "$NAME
-        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background -m --pidfile $PIDFILE \
-            --exec $DAEMON --chuid $USER --group $GROUP --verbose -- $NET_OPTS
-        echo "."
-        ;;
-
-    stop)
-        echo -n "Stopping daemon: "$NAME
-        $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS stop
-        rm -f $PIDFILE
-        echo "."
-        ;;
-
-    restart)
-        echo -n "Restarting daemon: "$NAME
-        $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS stop
-        rm -f $PIDFILE
-        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background -m --pidfile $PIDFILE \
-            --exec $DAEMON --chuid $USER --group $GROUP -- $NET_OPTS
-        echo "."
-        ;;
-
-    status)
-        echo "Status of $NAME:"
-        echo -n "PID of $NAME: "
-        if [ -f "$PIDFILE" ]; then
-                cat $PIDFILE
-                $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS server_info
-        else
-                echo "$NAME not running."
-        fi
-        echo "."
-        ;;
-
-    fetch)
-        echo "$NAME ledger fetching info:"
-        $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS fetch_info
-        echo "."
-        ;;
-
-    uptime)
-        echo "$NAME uptime:"
-        $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS get_counts
-        echo "."
-        ;;
-
-    startconfig)
-        echo "$NAME is being started with the following command line:"
-        echo "$DAEMON $NET_OPTS"
-        echo "."
-        ;;
-
-    command)
-        # Truncate the script's argument vector by one position to get rid of
-        # this entry.
-        shift
-
-        # Pass the remainder of the argument vector to rippled.
-        $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS "$@"
-        echo "."
-        ;;
-
-    test)
-        $DAEMON $DAEMON_OPTS ping
-        echo "."
-        ;;
-
-    *)
-        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status|fetch|uptime|startconfig|"
-        echo "           command|test}"
-        exit 1
-esac
-
-exit 0
-