diff --git a/scripts/Makefile b/scripts/Makefile
index 17c8e383fac..d2ab8f5d381 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/Makefile
@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ install:
 	$(IPROG) xapi-health-check $(DESTDIR)$(LIBEXECDIR)
 	$(IPROG) mail-alarm $(DESTDIR)$(LIBEXECDIR)
 	$(IDATA) audit-logrotate $(DESTDIR)/etc/logrotate.d/audit
-	$(IDATA) xapi-logrotate.conf $(DESTDIR)$(ETCXENDIR)
-	$(IPROG) xapi-logrotate.sh $(DESTDIR)$(LIBEXECDIR)
+	$(IDATA) xapi-logrotate.conf $(DESTDIR)/etc/logrotate.d/xapi
 	$(IPROG) xapi-tracing-log-trim.sh $(DESTDIR)$(LIBEXECDIR)
 	$(IPROG) xapi-wait-init-complete $(DESTDIR)$(OPTDIR)/bin
 	$(IPROG) xapi-autostart-vms $(DESTDIR)$(OPTDIR)/bin
@@ -158,7 +157,6 @@ install:
 	$(IPROG) certificate-check $(DESTDIR)/etc/cron.daily/
 	$(IPROG) certificate-refresh $(DESTDIR)/etc/cron.hourly/
 	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/etc/cron.d
-	$(IDATA) xapi-logrotate.cron $(DESTDIR)/etc/cron.d/xapi-logrotate.cron
 	$(IDATA) xapi-tracing-log-trim.cron $(DESTDIR)/etc/cron.d/xapi-tracing-log-trim.cron
 	mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/opt/xensource/gpg
 # templates
diff --git a/scripts/xapi-logrotate.conf b/scripts/xapi-logrotate.conf
index b50677e72f2..e9d4845d582 100644
--- a/scripts/xapi-logrotate.conf
+++ b/scripts/xapi-logrotate.conf
@@ -1,20 +1,3 @@
-# see "man logrotate" for details
-# rotate log files daily
-daily
-
-# keep one months worth of backlogs
-rotate 31
-
-# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
-create
-
-# compress log files
-compress
-delaycompress
-
-# All the general settings above are copied from /etc/logrotate.conf
-# as installed by the logrotate RPM.
-
 /var/log/xensource.log {
     missingok
 
@@ -26,9 +9,6 @@ delaycompress
     # When rotating, remove any rotated logs older than this many days.
     maxage 31
 
-    # Rotate when file exceeds this size, even if we rotated it today already.
-    maxsize 100M
-
     # Keep up to this many old files.
     # (When considering total size, expect a compression factor around 10-20.)
     rotate 100
diff --git a/scripts/xapi-logrotate.cron b/scripts/xapi-logrotate.cron
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f4506fb1f6..00000000000
--- a/scripts/xapi-logrotate.cron
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# Run at 40 minutes past the hour,
-# every hour, day-of-month, month, day-of-week
-40   *  *  *  * root /opt/xensource/libexec/xapi-logrotate.sh
diff --git a/scripts/xapi-logrotate.sh b/scripts/xapi-logrotate.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index b4a5935feae..00000000000
--- a/scripts/xapi-logrotate.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# If we're using the old partitioning scheme there's no need to run this.
-if ! grep -q /var/log /proc/mounts; then
-  exit 0
-fi
-
-/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/xensource/xapi-logrotate.conf
-EXITVALUE=$?
-if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
-    /usr/bin/logger -t $0 "ALERT exited abnormally with [$EXITVALUE]"
-fi
-exit 0