diff --git a/changes/ticket30075 b/changes/ticket30075
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..288abd7674
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/ticket30075
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+  o Removed features:
+    - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves issue
+      30075.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0b80669f03..3ea578bbba 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2459,7 +2459,6 @@ AC_CONFIG_FILES([
 	config.rust
 	contrib/dist/suse/tor.sh
 	contrib/operator-tools/tor.logrotate
-	contrib/dist/tor.sh
 	contrib/dist/torctl
 	contrib/dist/tor.service
 	src/config/torrc.sample
diff --git a/contrib/dist/tor.sh.in b/contrib/dist/tor.sh.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 92f890681f..0000000000
--- a/contrib/dist/tor.sh.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,123 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# tor    The Onion Router
-#
-# Startup/shutdown script for tor. This is a wrapper around torctl;
-# torctl does the actual work in a relatively system-independent, or at least
-# distribution-independent, way, and this script deals with fitting the
-# whole thing into the conventions of the particular system at hand.
-# This particular script is written for Red Hat/Fedora Linux, and may
-# also work on Mandrake, but not SuSE.
-#
-# These next couple of lines "declare" tor for the "chkconfig" program,
-# originally from SGI, used on Red Hat/Fedora and probably elsewhere.
-#
-# chkconfig: 2345 90 10
-# description: Onion Router - A low-latency anonymous proxy
-#
-
-PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
-DAEMON=/usr/sbin/tor
-NAME=tor
-DESC="tor daemon"
-TORPIDDIR=/var/run/tor
-TORPID=$TORPIDDIR/tor.pid
-WAITFORDAEMON=60
-ARGS=""
-
-# Library functions
-if [ -f /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions ]; then
-   . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
-elif [ -f /etc/init.d/functions ]; then
-   . /etc/init.d/functions
-fi
-
-TORCTL=@BINDIR@/torctl
-
-# torctl will use these environment variables
-TORUSER=@TORUSER@
-export TORUSER
-
-if [ -x /bin/su ] ; then
-    SUPROG=/bin/su
-elif [ -x /sbin/su ] ; then
-    SUPROG=/sbin/su
-elif [ -x /usr/bin/su ] ; then
-    SUPROG=/usr/bin/su
-elif [ -x /usr/sbin/su ] ; then
-    SUPROG=/usr/sbin/su
-else
-    SUPROG=/bin/su
-fi
-
-# Raise ulimit based on number of file descriptors available (thanks, Debian)
-
-if [ -r /proc/sys/fs/file-max ]; then
-	system_max=`cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max`
-	if [ "$system_max" -gt "80000" ] ; then
-		MAX_FILEDESCRIPTORS=32768
-	elif [ "$system_max" -gt "40000" ] ; then
-		MAX_FILEDESCRIPTORS=16384
-	elif [ "$system_max" -gt "10000" ] ; then
-		MAX_FILEDESCRIPTORS=8192
-	else
-		MAX_FILEDESCRIPTORS=1024
-		cat << EOF
-
-Warning: Your system has very few filedescriptors available in total.
-
-Maybe you should try raising that by adding 'fs.file-max=100000' to your
-/etc/sysctl.conf file.  Feel free to pick any number that you deem appropriate.
-Then run 'sysctl -p'.  See /proc/sys/fs/file-max for the current value, and
-file-nr in the same directory for how many of those are used at the moment.
-
-EOF
-	fi
-else
-	MAX_FILEDESCRIPTORS=8192
-fi
-
-NICE=""
-
-case "$1" in
-
-    start)
-	if [ -n "$MAX_FILEDESCRIPTORS" ]; then
-		echo -n "Raising maximum number of filedescriptors (ulimit -n) to $MAX_FILEDESCRIPTORS"
-		if ulimit -n "$MAX_FILEDESCRIPTORS" ; then
-			echo "."
-		else
-			echo ": FAILED."
-		fi
-	fi
-
-    action $"Starting tor:" $TORCTL start
-    RETVAL=$?
-    ;;
-
-    stop)
-    action $"Stopping tor:" $TORCTL stop
-    RETVAL=$?
-    ;;
-
-    restart)
-    action $"Restarting tor:" $TORCTL restart
-    RETVAL=$?
-    ;;
-
-    reload)
-    action $"Reloading tor:" $TORCTL reload
-    RETVAL=$?
-    ;;
-
-    status)
-    $TORCTL status
-    RETVAL=$?
-    ;;
-
-    *)
-    echo "Usage: $0 (start|stop|restart|reload|status)"
-    RETVAL=1
-esac
-
-exit $RETVAL
diff --git a/contrib/include.am b/contrib/include.am
index 742bc58163..9f4775632c 100644
--- a/contrib/include.am
+++ b/contrib/include.am
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST+= \
 	contrib/client-tools/torify			\
 	contrib/dist/rc.subr				\
 	contrib/dist/suse/tor.sh.in			\
-	contrib/dist/tor.sh				\
 	contrib/dist/torctl				\
 	contrib/dist/tor.service.in			\
 	contrib/operator-tools/tor-exit-notice.html	\