diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index f00e4ed684..ab81736b90 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 1.1-dev
+ * removed in-tree redhat spec (CASSANDRA-3567)
  * "defragment" rows for name-based queries under STCS, again (CASSANDRA-2503)
  * Recycle commitlog segments for improved performance 
    (CASSANDRA-3411, 3543, 3557)
diff --git a/redhat/apache-cassandra.spec b/redhat/apache-cassandra.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index e2f477efc5..0000000000
--- a/redhat/apache-cassandra.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,126 +0,0 @@
-%define __jar_repack %{nil}
-
-%global username cassandra
-
-%define relname %{name}-%{version}-%{release}
-
-Name:           apache-cassandra
-Version:        0.7.0
-Release:        rc3
-Summary:        Cassandra is a highly scalable, eventually consistent, distributed, structured key-value store.
-
-Group:          Development/Libraries
-License:        Apache Software License
-URL:            http://cassandra.apache.org/
-Source0:        http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/apache/%{username}/%{version}/%{relname}-src.tar.gz
-BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{relname}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
-
-BuildRequires: java-devel
-BuildRequires: jpackage-utils
-BuildRequires: ant
-BuildRequires: ant-nodeps
-
-Conflicts:     cassandra
-Obsoletes:     cassandra07
-
-Requires:      java >= 1.6.0
-Requires:      jna  >= 3.2.7
-Requires:      jpackage-utils
-Requires(pre): user(cassandra)
-Requires(pre): group(cassandra)
-Requires(pre): shadow-utils
-Provides:      user(cassandra)
-Provides:      group(cassandra)
-
-BuildArch:      noarch
-
-%description
-Cassandra brings together the distributed systems technologies from Dynamo
-and the data model from Google's BigTable. Like Dynamo, Cassandra is
-eventually consistent. Like BigTable, Cassandra provides a ColumnFamily-based
-data model richer than typical key/value systems.
-
-For more information see http://cassandra.apache.org/
-
-%prep
-%setup -q -n %{relname}-src
-
-%build
-ant clean jar -Drelease=true
-
-%install
-%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/%{username}/
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}/lib
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}/default.conf
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/etc/%{username}/default.conf
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/etc/rc.d/init.d/
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/etc/security/limits.d/
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/etc/default/
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/sbin
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/usr/bin
-cp -p conf/* %{buildroot}/etc/%{username}/default.conf
-cp -p conf/* %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}/default.conf
-cp -p redhat/%{username} %{buildroot}/etc/rc.d/init.d/
-cp -p redhat/%{username}.conf %{buildroot}/etc/security/limits.d/
-cp -p redhat/default %{buildroot}/etc/default/%{username}
-cp -p lib/*.jar %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}/lib
-mv redhat/cassandra.in.sh %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}
-rm bin/cassandra.in.sh
-mv bin/cassandra %{buildroot}/usr/sbin
-rm bin/*.bat 
-cp -p bin/* %{buildroot}/usr/bin
-# Handle the case of interim SNAPHOST builds
-cp build/%{relname}*jar %{buildroot}/usr/share/%{username}/lib
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/lib/%{username}/commitlog
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/lib/%{username}/data
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/lib/%{username}/saved_caches
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/run/%{username}
-mkdir -p %{buildroot}/var/log/%{username}
-
-%clean
-%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}
-
-%pre
-getent group %{username} >/dev/null || groupadd -r %{username}
-getent passwd %{username} >/dev/null || \
-useradd -d /usr/share/%{username} -g %{username} -M -r %{username}
-exit 0
-
-%preun
-# only delete user on removal, not upgrade
-if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
-    userdel %{username}
-fi
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root,0755)
-%doc CHANGES.txt LICENSE.txt README.txt NEWS.txt NOTICE.txt
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/*
-%attr(755,root,root) %{_sbindir}/cassandra
-%attr(755,root,root) /etc/rc.d/init.d/%{username}
-%attr(755,root,root) /etc/default/%{username}
-%attr(755,root,root) /etc/security/limits.d/%{username}.conf
-%attr(755,%{username},%{username}) /usr/share/%{username}*
-%attr(755,%{username},%{username}) %config(noreplace) /%{_sysconfdir}/%{username}
-%attr(755,%{username},%{username}) %config(noreplace) /var/lib/%{username}/*
-%attr(755,%{username},%{username}) /var/log/%{username}*
-%attr(755,%{username},%{username}) /var/run/%{username}*
-
-%post
-alternatives --install /etc/%{username}/conf %{username} /etc/%{username}/default.conf/ 0
-exit 0
-
-%postun
-# only delete alternative on removal, not upgrade
-if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then
-    alternatives --remove %{username} /etc/%{username}/default.conf/
-fi
-exit 0
-
-%changelog
-* Tue Aug 03 2010 Nick Bailey <nicholas.bailey@rackpace.com> - 0.7.0-1
-- Updated to make configuration easier and changed package name.
-* Mon Jul 05 2010 Peter Halliday <phalliday@excelsiorsystems.net> - 0.6.3-1
-- Initial package
diff --git a/redhat/cassandra b/redhat/cassandra
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b7f0483b6..0000000000
--- a/redhat/cassandra
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# /etc/init.d/cassandra
-#
-# Startup script for Cassandra
-# 
-# chkconfig: 2345 20 80
-# description: Starts and stops Cassandra
-
-. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
-
-export CASSANDRA_HOME=/usr/share/cassandra/
-export CASSANDRA_INCLUDE=/usr/share/cassandra/cassandra.in.sh
-export CASSANDRA_CONF=/etc/cassandra/conf
-export CASSANDRA_OWNR=cassandra
-NAME="cassandra"
-log_file=/var/log/cassandra/cassandra.log
-pid_file=/var/run/cassandra/cassandra.pid
-CASSANDRA_PROG=/usr/sbin/cassandra
-
-# The first existing directory is used for JAVA_HOME if needed.
-JVM_SEARCH_DIRS="/usr/lib/jvm/jre /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.* /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.*/jre"
-
-# Read configuration variable file if it is present
-[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME
-
-# If JAVA_HOME has not been set, try to determine it.
-if [ -z "$JAVA_HOME" ]; then
-    # If java is in PATH, use a JAVA_HOME that corresponds to that. This is
-    # both consistent with how the upstream startup script works, and with
-    # the use of alternatives to set a system JVM (as is done on Debian and
-    # Red Hat derivatives).
-    java="`/usr/bin/which java 2>/dev/null`"
-    if [ -n "$java" ]; then
-        java=`readlink --canonicalize "$java"`
-        JAVA_HOME=`dirname "\`dirname \$java\`"`
-    else
-        # No JAVA_HOME set and no java found in PATH; search for a JVM.
-        for jdir in $JVM_SEARCH_DIRS; do
-            if [ -x "$jdir/bin/java" ]; then
-                JAVA_HOME="$jdir"
-                break
-            fi
-        done
-        # if JAVA_HOME is still empty here, punt.
-    fi
-fi
-JAVA="$JAVA_HOME/bin/java"
-export JAVA_HOME JAVA
-
-case "$1" in
-    start)
-        # Cassandra startup
-        echo -n "Starting Cassandra: "
-        su $CASSANDRA_OWNR -c "$CASSANDRA_PROG -p $pid_file" > $log_file 2>&1
-        echo "OK"
-        ;;
-    stop)
-        # Cassandra shutdown
-        echo -n "Shutdown Cassandra: "
-        su $CASSANDRA_OWNR -c "kill `cat $pid_file`"
-        echo "OK"
-        ;;
-    reload|restart)
-        $0 stop
-        $0 start
-        ;;
-    status)
-        status -p $pid_file cassandra
-        ;;
-    *)
-        echo "Usage: `basename $0` start|stop|status|restart|reload"
-        exit 1
-esac
-
-exit 0
-
diff --git a/redhat/cassandra.conf b/redhat/cassandra.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f177c44fd..0000000000
--- a/redhat/cassandra.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-cassandra   -   memlock     unlimited
-cassandra   -   nofile      100000
diff --git a/redhat/cassandra.in.sh b/redhat/cassandra.in.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index fcb188ea4f..0000000000
--- a/redhat/cassandra.in.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-
-# The directory where Cassandra's configs live (required)
-CASSANDRA_CONF=/etc/cassandra/conf
-
-# The java classpath (required)
-if [ -n "$CLASSPATH" ]; then
-	CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$CASSANDRA_CONF
-else
-	CLASSPATH=$CASSANDRA_CONF
-fi
-
-# use JNA if installed in standard location
-[ -r /usr/share/java/jna.jar ] && CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:/usr/share/java/jna.jar"
-
-
-for jar in /usr/share/cassandra/lib/*.jar; do
-    CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$jar
-done
diff --git a/redhat/default b/redhat/default
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b56a980fd..0000000000
--- a/redhat/default
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# NOTICE: See also /etc/cassandra/cassandra-env.sh
-
-# EXTRA_CLASSPATH provides the means to extend Cassandra's classpath with
-# additional libraries.  It is formatted as a colon-delimited list of
-# class directories and/or jar files.  For example, to enable the
-# JMX-to-web bridge install libmx4j-java and uncomment the following.
-#EXTRA_CLASSPATH="/usr/share/java/mx4j-tools.jar"