diff --git a/bin/update-github-list b/bin/update-github-list
index 6efbeba..f18ad55 100755
--- a/bin/update-github-list
+++ b/bin/update-github-list
@@ -1,26 +1,24 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-dbservice=github
-dbconn="service=${dbservice}"
-psql="psql --no-psqlrc --pset t --pset format=unaligned ${dbconn}"
+# PYTHONPATH should be set via cron
+# export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/src/swh-lister-github/
 
-export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/src/github-list-repos/
 logfile=$HOME/.cache/ghlister/log/ghlister.$(date +%Y%m%d).log
 
 # catchup with recent changes
 $HOME/src/github-list-repos/bin/ghlister catchup &> $logfile
 
 # XXX: computing the following stats via this script forced to have double
 # configuration for shell-vs-python. Also it's unneeded: we can compute the
 # same information (number of repos created per day) from the DB, via the
 # last_seen column.
 
 # dbservice=lister-github
 # dbconn="service=${dbservice}"
 # psql="psql --no-psqlrc --pset t --pset format=unaligned ${dbconn}"
 
 # # compute and store current totals
 # all_repos=$(echo "select count(*) from repos" | $psql)
 # fork_repos=$(echo "select count(*) from fork_repos" | $psql)
 # orig_repos=$(echo "select count(*) from orig_repos" | $psql)
 # echo "insert into repos_history(repos, fork_repos, orig_repos) values (${all_repos}, ${fork_repos}, ${orig_repos})" | $psql > /dev/null