diff --git a/man5/hosts.5 b/man5/hosts.5
index 9520a4f19..aca5a43c0 100644
--- a/man5/hosts.5
+++ b/man5/hosts.5
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-.\" Hey, Emacs! This is an -*- nroff -*- source file.
 .\" Copyright (c) 2000 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
 .\"
 .\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL)
diff --git a/man5/nss.5 b/man5/nss.5
index c3a83e1b9..733396d32 100644
--- a/man5/nss.5
+++ b/man5/nss.5
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-.\" A man page for /etc/default/nss. -*- nroff -*-
-.\"
 .\" Copyright (C) 2006 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved.
 .\"
 .\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2_MISC)