diff --git a/share/examples/Makefile b/share/examples/Makefile
index 047ab6805195..c02a7d6cd2d0 100644
--- a/share/examples/Makefile
+++ b/share/examples/Makefile
@@ -1,38 +1,31 @@
 #	$Id: Makefile,v 1.5 1994/09/13 02:21:03 wollman Exp $
 #
 # Doing a make install builds /usr/share/examples
 
 DIRS=etc FreeBSD_version lkm sunrpc
 NOOBJ=	noobj
-ETCOWN= root
-ETCGRP= wheel
-ETCMODE=644
 
 # Define SHARED to indicate whether you want symbolic links to the system
 # source (``symlinks''), or a separate copy (``copies''); (latter useful
 # in environments where it's not possible to keep /sys publicly readable)
 SHARED?=	copies
 
 all clean cleandir depend lint tags:
 
 beforeinstall: ${SHARED}
 
 copies:
 	@${ECHO} installing ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/examples
 	@-for a in ${DIRS}; do \
 		rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/examples/$$a; \
 		cp =rp $$a ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/examples; \
 	done
 
 symlinks:
 	@${ECHO} installing symlinks in ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/examples
 	@-for a in ${DIRS}; do \
 		rm -rf ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/examples/$$a; \
 		ln -s ${.CURDIR}/$$a ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/examples; \
 	done
 
-install-etc:
-	install -c -o ${ETCOWN} -g ${ETCGRP} -m ${ETCMODE} \
-		${.CURDIR}/etc/[a-z]* ${DESTDIR}/etc
-
 .include <bsd.prog.mk>