diff --git a/init.d/sc-filemover.service b/init.d/sc-filemover.service
deleted file mode 100644
index 29198ff8579b9603f25382fc1948e3f31eabdc87..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/init.d/sc-filemover.service
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=Wrapper script to run scouting filemover
-
-[Service]
-Type=simple
-PIDFile=/var/log/sc-filemover/pid
-ExecStart=/opt/sc-filemover/scripts/runFileMover.sh
-User=scouter
-Group=scouter
-WorkingDirectory=/opt/sc-filemover/scripts
-Restart=always
-RestartSec=10
-
-[Install]
-WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/scripts/fileMover.py b/scripts/fileMover.py
deleted file mode 100755
index 37cb789016712b75af0a077a7b3108e486212862..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/scripts/fileMover.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-#! /usr/bin/python
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    from os import listdir
-    from os.path import isfile, join
-    import time
-    import os
-
-    while True:
-        try:
-            onlyfiles = [f for f in listdir('/fff/ramdisk/scdaq') if isfile(join('/fff/ramdisk/scdaq', f)) and f.endswith('.dat')]
-            if len(onlyfiles)==0:
-                print "waiting for new file..."
-                time.sleep(30)
-            print onlyfiles
-            for f in onlyfiles:
-                full_filename = join('/fff/ramdisk/scdaq', f)
-                outfile = f+'.bz2'
-		name_without_extension = f.split(".")[0]
-		subsystem=name_without_extension.split("_")[1]
-		run_number=name_without_extension.split("_")[2]
-
-                dest_path = join('/store/lustre/l1scout/scdaq/',run_number)
-
-                if not (os.path.exists(dest_path)):
-                    os.mkdir(dest_path)
-
-                dest_name = join(dest_path,outfile) 
-                command = "lbzip2 "+full_filename+" -c > "+dest_name
-                print "compressing "+full_filename
-                retval = os.system(command)
-                if retval==0:
-                    command = "rm "+full_filename
-                    print "deleting "+full_filename
-                    retval = os.system(command)
-        except OSError as err:
-            print err
-            time.sleep(600)
diff --git a/scripts/runFileMover.sh b/scripts/runFileMover.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f6c6f31d7d99631db80ab93b1453e1b41ebfe68b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/scripts/runFileMover.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# This script will start Scouting Data-Taking Software
-#
-
-sudo python fileMover.py
diff --git a/scripts/scdaqrpm.sh b/scripts/scdaqrpm.sh
index 0d0613e6ba3578920e62852aa91c72d0199067da..9360021d0e3e35af45b38a541174257ffa0fa749 100755
--- a/scripts/scdaqrpm.sh
+++ b/scripts/scdaqrpm.sh
@@ -87,7 +87,6 @@ for ((i = 0; i < ${NLINES}; i++)); do
 done
 
 PACKAGENAME="scdaq"
-PACKAGENAMEFILEMOVER="sc-filemover"
 
 cd $SCRIPTDIR/..
 BASEDIR=$PWD
@@ -95,67 +94,8 @@ BASEDIR=$PWD
 # create a build area
 echo "removing old build area"
 rm -rf /tmp/$PACKAGENAME-build-tmp
-rm -rf /tmp/$PACKAGENAMEFILEMOVER-build-tmp
 echo "creating new build area"
 mkdir /tmp/$PACKAGENAME-build-tmp
-mkdir /tmp/$PACKAGENAMEFILEMOVER-build-tmp
-cd /tmp/$PACKAGENAMEFILEMOVER-build-tmp
-TOPDIR=$PWD
-echo "working in $PWD"
-
-
-# we are done here, write the specs and make the rpm
-cat >sc-filemover.spec <<EOF
-Name: $PACKAGENAMEFILEMOVER$pkgsuffix
-Version: $VER
-Release: $REL
-Summary: L1 Scouting DAQ filemover
-License: gpl
-Group: CMS/L1Scouting
-Packager: scouter
-Source: none
-%define _tmppath $TOPDIR/sc-filemover-build
-%define debug_package %{nil}
-%define __strip /bin/true
-BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}
-BuildArch: $BUILD_ARCH
-AutoReqProv: no
-Provides:/opt/sc-filemover
-
-%description
-scouting daq filemover
-
-%prep
-cp -R $BASEDIR/scripts SOURCES/
-
-%install
-cd \$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-echo "Creating directories"
-mkdir -p opt/sc-filemover
-mkdir -p etc/sc-filemover
-mkdir -p etc/logrotate.d
-mkdir -p usr/lib/systemd/system
-mkdir -p etc/init.d
-cp $BASEDIR/init.d/sc-filemover.service usr/lib/systemd/system/sc-filemover.service
-cp -R $BASEDIR/scripts opt/sc-filemover
-
-%preun
-if [ \$1 == 0 ]; then
-  /usr/bin/systemctl stop sc-filemover || true
-  /usr/bin/systemctl disable sc-filemover || true
-  /usr/bin/systemctl stop sc-filemover || true
-  /usr/bin/systemctl disable sc-filemover || true
-fi
-
-%files
-%defattr(-, root, root, -)
-/opt/sc-filemover/
-%attr( 644 ,root, root) /usr/lib/systemd/system/sc-filemover.service
-
-EOF
-mkdir -p RPMBUILDFILEMOVER/{RPMS/{noarch},SPECS,BUILD,SOURCES,SRPMS}
-rpmbuild --define "_topdir $(pwd)/RPMBUILDFILEMOVER" -bb sc-filemover.spec
-
 cd /tmp/$PACKAGENAME-build-tmp
 TOPDIR=$PWD
 echo "working in $PWD"