diff --git a/src/scheduler/src/sched/Scheduler.cc b/src/scheduler/src/sched/Scheduler.cc
index c66ad3fdbb..9b14286cfa 100644
--- a/src/scheduler/src/sched/Scheduler.cc
+++ b/src/scheduler/src/sched/Scheduler.cc
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ void Scheduler::start()
 
     int fd;
 
-    fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR|O_CREAT);
+    fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
 
     dup2(fd,0);
     dup2(fd,1);