diff --git a/scripts/ucloud b/scripts/ucloud
index 5e8bce6..3ddbb5a 100755
--- a/scripts/ucloud
+++ b/scripts/ucloud
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
         arg_parser.print_help()
     else:
         # Setting up root logger
-        logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+        logger = logging.getLogger('ucloud')
 
         syslog_handler = SysLogHandler(address='/dev/log')
         syslog_handler.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
diff --git a/ucloud/imagescanner/main.py b/ucloud/imagescanner/main.py
index 0d2fbf2..e215c88 100755
--- a/ucloud/imagescanner/main.py
+++ b/ucloud/imagescanner/main.py
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 import json
 import os
 import subprocess as sp
-import sys
 
-from os.path import isdir
 from os.path import join as join_path
 from ucloud.settings import settings
 from ucloud.shared import shared
@@ -21,19 +19,6 @@ def qemu_img_type(path):
         qemu_img_info = json.loads(qemu_img_info.decode("utf-8"))
         return qemu_img_info["format"]
 
-def check():
-    """ check whether settings are sane, refuse to start if they aren't """
-    if settings['storage']['storage_backend'] == 'filesystem' and not isdir(settings['storage']['image_dir']):
-        sys.exit("You have set STORAGE_BACKEND to filesystem, but "
-                 "{} does not exist. Refusing to start".format(settings['storage']['image_dir'])
-        )
-
-    try:
-        sp.check_output(['which', 'qemu-img'])
-    except Exception:
-        print("qemu-img missing")
-        sys.exit(1)
-
 
 def main():
     # We want to get images entries that requests images to be created