diff --git a/Shorewall-core/configure b/Shorewall-core/configure
index 377c92073..860976aa6 100755
--- a/Shorewall-core/configure
+++ b/Shorewall-core/configure
@@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ for on in \
     SYSCONFDIR \
     SPARSE \
     ANNOTATED \
-    VARDIR \
-    DIGEST
+    VARDIR
 do
     echo "$on=${options[${on}]}"
     echo "$on=${options[${on}]}" >> shorewallrc
diff --git a/Shorewall-core/configure.pl b/Shorewall-core/configure.pl
index 8485692f4..439c3ca7e 100755
--- a/Shorewall-core/configure.pl
+++ b/Shorewall-core/configure.pl
@@ -141,8 +141,7 @@ for ( qw/ HOST
 	  SYSCONFDIR
 	  SPARSE
 	  ANNOTATED
-	  VARDIR
-	  DIGEST / ) {
+	  VARDIR / ) {
 
     my $val = $options{$_} || '';