diff --git a/start.sh b/start.sh
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index 602228f..0000000
--- a/start.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-AUTHBIND_ENABLED=no
-COWRIEDIR=$(dirname $0)
-PIDFILE="var/run/cowrie.pid"
-export PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH}:${COWRIEDIR}
-#Change the below to -n to disable daemonizing (for instance when using supervisor)
-DAEMONIZE=""
-
-set -e
-cd ${COWRIEDIR}
-
-if [ "$1" != "" ]
-then
-    VENV="$1"
-
-    if [ ! -d "$VENV" ]
-    then
-        echo "The specified virtualenv \"$VENV\" was not found!"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-
-    if [ ! -f "$VENV/bin/activate" ]
-    then
-        echo "The specified virtualenv \"$VENV\" was not found!"
-        exit 2
-    fi
-
-    echo "Activating virtualenv \"$VENV\""
-    . $VENV/bin/activate
-fi
-
-echo "Starting cowrie with extra arguments [$XARGS $DAEMONIZE] ..."
-if [ $AUTHBIND_ENABLED = "no" ]
-then
-    twistd $XARGS $DAEMONIZE -l log/cowrie.log --umask 0077 --pidfile ${PIDFILE} cowrie
-else
-    authbind --deep twistd $DAEMONIZE $XARGS -l log/cowrie.log --umask 0077 --pidfile ${PIDFILE} cowrie
-fi
diff --git a/stop.sh b/stop.sh
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index 64b3ac6..0000000
--- a/stop.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-PIDFILE=var/run/cowrie.pid
-
-cd $(dirname $0)
-
-PID=$(cat ${PIDFILE} 2>/dev/null)
-
-if [ -n "$PID" ]; then
-  echo "Stopping cowrie..."
-  kill -TERM $PID
-fi