diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/conf/asterix.conf b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/conf/asterix.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 659b48e..0000000
--- a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/conf/asterix.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-output_dir=/tmp/asterix_output/
diff --git a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/conf/log4j.properties b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/conf/log4j.properties
index b951c14..fedf941 100644
--- a/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/conf/log4j.properties
+++ b/asterix-installer/src/main/resources/conf/log4j.properties
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
 log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
 # Print the date in ISO 8601 format
-log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%d %-p: %n%m%n
+log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-p: %m%n
 
 log4j.logger.edu.uci.ics.asterix.event.management=error
 log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper=error