diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/nfs-utils_2.8.2.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/nfs-utils_2.8.2.bb
index 18c4a249b33..ff02a3aea01 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/nfs-utils_2.8.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/nfs-utils/nfs-utils_2.8.2.bb
@@ -149,7 +149,4 @@ do_install:append () {
 	# chown the directories and files
 	chown -R rpcuser:rpcuser ${D}${localstatedir}/lib/nfs/statd
 	chmod 0644 ${D}${localstatedir}/lib/nfs/statd/state
-
-	# Make python tools use python 3
-	sed -i -e '1s,#!.*python.*,#!${bindir}/python3,' ${D}${sbindir}/mountstats ${D}${sbindir}/nfsiostat
 }