diff --git a/tools/config/check_uptodate.sh b/tools/config/check_uptodate.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 585dcf6bd..000000000
--- a/tools/config/check_uptodate.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-PROJECT_NAME=${PROJECT_NAME:-heat}
-CFGFILE_NAME=${PROJECT_NAME}.conf.sample
-
-if [ -e etc/${PROJECT_NAME}/${CFGFILE_NAME} ]; then
-    CFGFILE=etc/${PROJECT_NAME}/${CFGFILE_NAME}
-elif [ -e etc/${CFGFILE_NAME} ]; then
-    CFGFILE=etc/${CFGFILE_NAME}
-else
-    echo "${0##*/}: can not find config file"
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-TEMPDIR=`mktemp -d /tmp/${PROJECT_NAME}.XXXXXX`
-trap "rm -rf $TEMPDIR" EXIT
-
-tools/config/generate_sample.sh -b ./ -p ${PROJECT_NAME} -o ${TEMPDIR}
-if [ $? != 0 ]
-then
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-if ! diff -u ${TEMPDIR}/${CFGFILE_NAME} ${CFGFILE}
-then
-   echo "${0##*/}: ${PROJECT_NAME}.conf.sample is not up to date."
-   echo "${0##*/}: Please run ${0%%${0##*/}}generate_sample.sh."
-   exit 1
-fi
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index e51663880..ab7e5fdfe 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ commands =
 [testenv:pep8]
 commands =
     flake8 heat bin/heat-api bin/heat-api-cfn bin/heat-api-cloudwatch bin/heat-engine bin/heat-manage contrib heat_integrationtests
-    {toxinidir}/tools/config/check_uptodate.sh
     # Check that .po and .pot files are valid:
     bash -c "find heat -type f -regex '.*\.pot?' -print0|xargs -0 -n 1 msgfmt --check-format -o /dev/null"