diff --git a/packages/sysutils/busybox/config/syslog.conf b/packages/sysutils/busybox/config/syslog.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 83b7e19fe6..0000000000
--- a/packages/sysutils/busybox/config/syslog.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-# /etc/syslog.conf
-
-# all messages of kern and user facilities
-kern,user.*          /var/log/messages
-
-# all messages of kern facility with priorities lower than err (warn, notice ...)
-kern.!err            /var/log/critical
-
-# all messages with auth and authpriv facilities
-auth,authpriv.*      /var/log/auth
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/busybox/profile.d/01-runlevel.conf b/packages/sysutils/busybox/profile.d/01-runlevel.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c0ce72bd4..0000000000
--- a/packages/sysutils/busybox/profile.d/01-runlevel.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-# Core (Shell) environment variables.
-#
-# This file contains non-OpenELEC evironment variables as well as OpenELEC
-# evironment variables that are not user defined.
-################################################################################
-
-# getting runlevel
-  RUNLEVEL="openelec"
-
-  if test "$TEXTMODE" = yes; then
-    RUNLEVEL="textmode"
-  fi
-
-  if test "$INSTALLER" = yes; then
-    RUNLEVEL="installer"
-  fi
-
-export RUNLEVEL
diff --git a/packages/sysutils/busybox/scripts/09_crond b/packages/sysutils/busybox/scripts/09_crond
deleted file mode 100644
index ec4288518f..0000000000
--- a/packages/sysutils/busybox/scripts/09_crond
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-################################################################################
-#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
-#      Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
-#
-#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-#  any later version.
-#
-#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-#  GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
-#  the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02110, USA.
-#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
-################################################################################
-
-#
-# start cron daemon
-#
-# runlevels: openelec, textmode
-
-(
-  # can be called from openelec addon.
-  # ensure that environment is sane
-  . /etc/profile
-
-  CRON_ENABLED=true
-  if [ -f $CONFIG_CACHE/services/cron.conf ]; then
-    . $CONFIG_CACHE/services/cron.conf
-  fi
-
-  if [ "$CRON_ENABLED" == "true" ]; then
-    progress "Starting cron daemon"
-    mkdir -p $CONFIG_CACHE/cron/crontabs
-    crond -b
-  fi
-)&