diff --git a/misc-scripts/production_database/scripts/populate_production_db_tables.pl b/misc-scripts/production_database/scripts/populate_production_db_tables.pl
index d72d82bd94c995b7285c6a752c14b5411c6a2a8b..8ce50dce25acdd4c5ca339575295e8a5674cd57f 100644
--- a/misc-scripts/production_database/scripts/populate_production_db_tables.pl
+++ b/misc-scripts/production_database/scripts/populate_production_db_tables.pl
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ my $dbpattern;
 
 my $core     = 0;
 my $verbose  = 0;
-my $cleanup  = 0;
 my $dumppath; 
 
 # Do command line parsing.