diff --git a/plugins/apache/apache_vhosts/apache_logparser b/plugins/apache/apache_vhosts/apache_logparser
index 1f3ddcb7..1f427b5e 100644
--- a/plugins/apache/apache_vhosts/apache_logparser
+++ b/plugins/apache/apache_vhosts/apache_logparser
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ $statefile	file to save last log position for tail
 $nsec		tail and write to shared mem every n seconds
 $debug		dump tallied data every n seconds, print every log line parsed
 $scan_interval	rescan for new log files every n minutes
-$type		log file type:
-                common: CLF + vhost + time + (other fields)
-                combined: combined + time + (other fields)
 =cut
 
 # config
@@ -38,7 +35,6 @@ my $files = "*access_log";
 my $site = "(.*)-access_log";
 my $statefile = "/tmp/logstate";
 `touch $statefile` unless (-f $statefile);
-local $type="combined";
 local $nsec=7;
 local $debug=0;