diff --git a/src/warden-client/lib/WardenClientCommon.pm b/src/warden-client/lib/WardenClientCommon.pm
index 83d38e577a8bf654624b397ad20605aa87d0e9ab..fc2276c3ad2cec354f9accb70edd04960def4533 100755
--- a/src/warden-client/lib/WardenClientCommon.pm
+++ b/src/warden-client/lib/WardenClientCommon.pm
@@ -15,16 +15,9 @@ use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;
 use Sys::Syslog qw(:DEFAULT setlogsock);
 Sys::Syslog::setlogsock('unix');
 use Carp;
-use File::Basename;
 
 our $VERSION = "2.2";
 
-# load client configuration
-my $lib = File::Basename::dirname(__FILE__);
-my $etc = "$lib/../etc";
-my $conf_file = "$etc/warden-client.conf";
-loadConf($conf_file);
-
 
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # errMsg - prints error msg and returns undef or prints warning and returns 1