diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index e1f63234..659ca58a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,3 @@ install:
   - mkdir -p $HOME/gopath/src/gopkg.in
   - mv $HOME/gopath/src/github.com/go-redis/redis $HOME/gopath/src/gopkg.in/redis.v2
   - cd $HOME/gopath/src/gopkg.in/redis.v2
-
-before_script:
-  - redis-server testdata/sentinel.conf --sentinel &
diff --git a/testdata/sentinel.conf b/testdata/sentinel.conf
deleted file mode 100644
index 3da90b38..00000000
--- a/testdata/sentinel.conf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-port 26379
-
-sentinel monitor master 127.0.0.1 6379 1
-sentinel down-after-milliseconds master 2000
-sentinel failover-timeout master 5000
-sentinel parallel-syncs master 4