diff --git a/manifests/newsyslog.pp b/manifests/newsyslog.pp
index f08597cb003ce00bdd764d4aa16926305f8a136b..da3b694119b4baf7803a9f84d89a4a1ec16f4720 100644
--- a/manifests/newsyslog.pp
+++ b/manifests/newsyslog.pp
@@ -41,16 +41,6 @@ class base::newsyslog {
     restart   => "hup ${pid_file}",
   }
 
-  # Install the default filter-syslog configuration.
-  file {
-    '/etc/filter-syslog.conf':
-      source  => 'puppet:///modules/base/newsyslog/etc/filter-syslog.conf';
-    '/etc/filter-syslog':
-      ensure  => directory,
-      recurse => true,
-      purge   => true,
-  }
-
   # btmp permissions must be 600 in RHEL systems
   # sshd on RHEL systems will complain otherwise, since bad ssh attempts
   # often are the result of entering a password as a username