diff --git a/client/defaults/main.yml b/client/defaults/main.yml
index b102a09561378f49cdd616b7ccd22cb99ebc9190..6da3b5c93847cf3edaaf358e4b18ba5e094d516a 100644
--- a/client/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/client/defaults/main.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 ---
 
 client_use_proprietary_google_apps: False
-client_do_rsyslog: True
 client_provision_mozilla: True
diff --git a/client/files/logrotate/rsyslog b/client/files/logrotate/rsyslog
deleted file mode 100644
index 2dc38282b2789b919cba72dad7c8b93c72d2c07a..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/client/files/logrotate/rsyslog
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-/var/log/auth.log
-{
-	rotate 4
-	weekly
-	missingok
-	notifempty
-	compress
-	postrotate
-		invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null
-	endscript
-}
-
-/var/log/syslog
-/var/log/mail.info
-/var/log/mail.warn
-/var/log/mail.err
-/var/log/mail.log
-/var/log/daemon.log
-/var/log/kern.log
-/var/log/user.log
-/var/log/lpr.log
-/var/log/cron.log
-/var/log/debug
-/var/log/messages
-{
-	rotate 7
-	daily
-	missingok
-	notifempty
-	compress
-	sharedscripts
-	postrotate
-		invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null
-	endscript
-}
diff --git a/client/tasks/configuration.yml b/client/tasks/configuration.yml
index 8f35da7ccfd5cb7fa44bd279c3886f4a70ccb7ca..6899dec36a8c21680329546de4c8482a24757930 100644
--- a/client/tasks/configuration.yml
+++ b/client/tasks/configuration.yml
@@ -28,10 +28,6 @@
   with_fileglob:
     - fonts/*
 
-- name: configure logrotate for rsyslog files to fit the client needs
-  copy: src=logrotate/rsyslog dest=/etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog owner=root group=root mode=0644
-  when: client_do_rsyslog
-
 - name: ensure firefox default profile stuff is installed
   copy: src=mozilla/firefox/ dest=/usr/lib/firefox-esr/ owner=root group=root mode=0644
   when: client_provision_mozilla