diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy.bb b/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy.bb
index fbd492b..ce58a53 100644
--- a/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy.bb
+++ b/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy.bb
@@ -9,15 +9,12 @@
 
 SRC_URI = "file://service-restart-policy.conf"
 SRC_URI += "file://disable-duplicate-kernel-msg.conf"
-SRC_URI += "file://disable-forward-to-syslog.conf"
 
 FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/system.conf.d/service-restart-policy.conf"
 FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/journald.conf.d/disable-duplicate-kernel-msg.conf"
-FILES_${PN} += "${systemd_unitdir}/journald.conf.d/disable-forward-to-syslog.conf"
 
 
 do_install() {
         install -m 644 -D ${WORKDIR}/service-restart-policy.conf ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system.conf.d/service-restart-policy.conf
         install -m 644 -D ${WORKDIR}/disable-duplicate-kernel-msg.conf ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/journald.conf.d/disable-duplicate-kernel-msg.conf
-        install -m 644 -D ${WORKDIR}/disable-forward-to-syslog.conf ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/journald.conf.d/disable-forward-to-syslog.conf
 }
diff --git a/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy/disable-forward-to-syslog.conf b/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy/disable-forward-to-syslog.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index c85bcea..0000000
--- a/common/recipes-phosphor/systemd-policy/phosphor-systemd-policy/disable-forward-to-syslog.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-# This file overrides some defaults for systemd
-#
-# systemd recently changed the default in their recipe
-# to forward all messages on to syslog. OpenBMC runs in
-# a constrained environment so the redundancy of having
-# the logs in both journald and syslog does not make sense.
-#
-# See systemd-system.conf(5) for details on the conf files
-
-[Journal]
-ForwardToSyslog=no