diff --git a/testdata/cachedb_no_store.tdir/cachedb_no_store.post b/testdata/cachedb_no_store.tdir/cachedb_no_store.post
index 27fe0961e..901f01a87 100644
--- a/testdata/cachedb_no_store.tdir/cachedb_no_store.post
+++ b/testdata/cachedb_no_store.tdir/cachedb_no_store.post
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
 # do your teardown here
 PRE="../.."
 . ../common.sh
-if grep "define USE_CACHEDB 1" $PRE/config.h; then echo test enabled; else skip_test "test skipped"; fi
 
 echo "> cat logfiles"
 cat fwd.log 
diff --git a/testdata/cachedb_no_store.tdir/cachedb_no_store.test b/testdata/cachedb_no_store.tdir/cachedb_no_store.test
index b1b543bdb..352026844 100644
--- a/testdata/cachedb_no_store.tdir/cachedb_no_store.test
+++ b/testdata/cachedb_no_store.tdir/cachedb_no_store.test
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 
 PRE="../.."
 . ../common.sh
-if grep "define USE_CACHEDB 1" $PRE/config.h; then echo test enabled; else skip_test "test skipped"; fi
 
 # do the test
 get_ldns_testns