diff --git a/bin/start_eris_db b/bin/start_eris_db
deleted file mode 100644
index 6dc34b888f33e737ed40eb00978cd635551c56d0..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/bin/start_eris_db
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-#! /bin/bash
-
-ifExit(){
-	if [[ $? != 0 ]]; then
-		echo "ifExit"
-		echo "$1"
-		for var in "$@"
-		do
-			    echo "$var"
-		done
-		exit 1
-	fi
-}
-
-if0Exit(){
-	if [[ $? == 0 ]]; then
-		echo "if0Exit"
-		echo "$1"
-		for var in "$@"
-		do
-			    echo "$var"
-		done
-		exit 1
-	fi
-}
-
-
-export -f ifExit
-export -f if0Exit
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-# set and export directories
-
-if [ "$CHAIN_ID" = "" ]; then
-	echo "Eris-db container requires environment variable CHAIN_ID to be set. Please run docker container with \`-e CHAIN_ID=\"<chainId>\"\`"
-	exit 1
-fi
-
-if [ "$ERIS_DB_WORKDIR" = "" ]; then
-	ERIS_DB_WORKDIR="$ERIS/chains/$CHAIN_ID"
-fi
-
-if [ ! -d "$ERIS_DB_WORKDIR" ]; then
-	mkdir -p $ERIS_DB_WORKDIR
-	ifExit "Error making working directory $ERIS_DB_WORKDIR"
-fi
-
-export ERIS_DB_WORKDIR
-export ERIS_DB_DATADIR=$ERIS_DB_WORKDIR/data
-
-echo "env CHAIN_ID is set to $CHAIN_ID"
-echo "env ERIS_DB_WORKDIR is set to $ERIS_DB_WORKDIR"
-echo "env ERIS_DB_DATADIR is set to $ERIS_DB_DATADIR"
-
-#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-# [2016-07-13 ben] we preserve the existing contact commands "new", "run",
-# but this functionality is absorbed in eris-db, eris-cm, eris-cli
-# and the mapping is preserved here to catch deployed use-cases.
-# NOTE: eris-db serve picks up following environment variables which are relevant to interaction with eris-cli
-#  - CHAIN_ID, set by eris-cli
-#  - ERIS_DB_WORKDIR, set in this script
-#  - ERIS_DB_DATADIR, set in this script
-#  - ERISDB_API (to be deprecated in favor of explicit --disable-rpc)
-#  - CONFIG_OPTS, for arbitrary flags to be passed to `eris-db serve`
-
-CMD=$1
-case $CMD in
-"install" ) 
-	echo "Install is under review to be deprecated; please contact support@erisindustries.com if you encounter this error."
-	exit 1
-	;;
-"new" ) echo "passed new"
-	;;
-"run" ) echo "passed run"
-	;;
-"register" ) 
-	echo "Register is under review to be deprecated; please contact support@erisindustries.com if you encounter this error."
-	exit 1
-	;;
-# we append $@ to eris-db to expose the same flags on the docker container,
-# eg `docker run -it quay.io/eris/erisdb --chain-id=<chain_id>`, will overwrite $CHAIN_ID
-*) echo "no known command given: $CMD"
-	;;
-esac
-
-echo "running eris-db serve --debug $CONFIG_OPTS \"$@\""
-eris-db serve --debug $CONFIG_OPTS "$@"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/server/scumbag.go b/test/server/scumbag.go
index 3d153b322bdbdf3f67d3b0d6c5f63ac685c9dafc..4cb141a9e6ad8f6584861f269ec8b8782b358f4c 100644
--- a/test/server/scumbag.go
+++ b/test/server/scumbag.go
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"runtime"
 
+	"github.com/eris-ltd/eris-db/rpc"
 	"github.com/eris-ltd/eris-db/server"
 	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
 	"github.com/tendermint/log15"
-	"github.com/eris-ltd/eris-db/rpc"
 )
 
 func init() {