diff --git a/redis-sentinel.service b/redis-sentinel.service
index a055cf5..0bcc990 100644
--- a/redis-sentinel.service
+++ b/redis-sentinel.service
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ Wants=network-online.target
 
 [Service]
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-sentinel /etc/redis/sentinel.conf --daemonize no --supervised systemd
-ExecStop=/usr/libexec/redis-shutdown sentinel
 Type=notify
 User=redis
 Group=redis
diff --git a/redis-shutdown b/redis-shutdown
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a4335a..0000000
--- a/redis-shutdown
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# Wrapper to close properly redis and sentinel
-test x"$REDIS_DEBUG" != x && set -x
-
-REDIS_CLI=/usr/bin/redis-cli
-
-# Retrieve service name
-SERVICE_NAME="$1"
-if [ -z "$SERVICE_NAME" ]; then
-   SERVICE_NAME=redis
-fi
-
-# Get the proper config file based on service name
-CONFIG_FILE="/etc/redis/$SERVICE_NAME.conf"
-
-# Use awk to retrieve host, port from config file
-HOST=`awk '/^[[:blank:]]*bind/ { print $2 }' $CONFIG_FILE | tail -n1`
-PORT=`awk '/^[[:blank:]]*port/ { print $2 }' $CONFIG_FILE | tail -n1`
-PASS=`awk '/^[[:blank:]]*requirepass/ { print $2 }' $CONFIG_FILE | tail -n1`
-SOCK=`awk '/^[[:blank:]]*unixsocket\s/ { print $2 }' $CONFIG_FILE | tail -n1`
-
-# Just in case, use default host, port
-HOST=${HOST:-127.0.0.1}
-if [ "$SERVICE_NAME" = redis ]; then
-    PORT=${PORT:-6379}
-else
-    PORT=${PORT:-26739}
-fi
-
-# Setup additional parameters
-# e.g password-protected redis instances
-[ -z "$PASS"  ] || ADDITIONAL_PARAMS="-a $PASS"
-
-# shutdown the service properly
-if [ -e "$SOCK" ] ; then
-	$REDIS_CLI -s $SOCK $ADDITIONAL_PARAMS shutdown
-else
-	$REDIS_CLI -h $HOST -p $PORT $ADDITIONAL_PARAMS shutdown
-fi
diff --git a/redis.service b/redis.service
index 4e59720..a577c83 100644
--- a/redis.service
+++ b/redis.service
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ Wants=network-online.target
 
 [Service]
 ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf --daemonize no --supervised systemd
-ExecStop=/usr/libexec/redis-shutdown
 Type=notify
 User=redis
 Group=redis
diff --git a/redis.spec b/redis.spec
index 3349e60..c41cc90 100644
--- a/redis.spec
+++ b/redis.spec
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 Name:              redis
 Version:           %{upstream_ver}%{?upstream_pre:~%{upstream_pre}}
-Release:           1%{?dist}
+Release:           2%{?dist}
 Summary:           A persistent key-value database
 # redis, hiredis: BSD-3-Clause
 # hdrhistogram, jemalloc, lzf, linenoise: BSD-2-Clause
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ URL:               https://redis.io
 Source0:           https://download.redis.io/releases/%{name}-%{upstream_ver}%{?upstream_pre:-%{upstream_pre}}.tar.gz
 Source1:           %{name}.logrotate
 Source2:           %{name}-sentinel.service
-Source6:           %{name}-shutdown
 Source3:           %{name}.service
 Source7:           %{name}-limit-systemd
 Source9:           macros.%{name}
@@ -64,8 +63,6 @@ BuildRequires:     systemd-rpm-macros
 BuildRequires:     openssl-devel
 # redis-trib functionality migrated to redis-cli
 Obsoletes:         redis-trib < 5
-# Required for redis-shutdown
-Requires:          /bin/awk
 Requires:          logrotate
 Requires(pre):     shadow-utils
 Requires(post):    systemd
@@ -194,9 +191,6 @@ install -p -D -m 644 %{S:7} %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/systemd/system/%{name}-se
 # Fix non-standard-executable-perm error.
 chmod 755 %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/%{name}-*
 
-# Install redis-shutdown
-install -pDm755 %{S:6} %{buildroot}%{_libexecdir}/%{name}-shutdown
-
 # Install redis module header
 install -pDm644 src/%{name}module.h %{buildroot}%{_includedir}/%{name}module.h
 
@@ -289,7 +283,6 @@ fi
 %exclude %{_includedir}
 %exclude %{_docdir}/%{name}/*
 %{_bindir}/%{name}-*
-%{_libexecdir}/%{name}-*
 %{_mandir}/man1/%{name}*
 %{_mandir}/man5/%{name}*
 %{_unitdir}/%{name}.service
@@ -314,6 +307,9 @@ fi
 
 
 %changelog
+* Tue Mar 28 2023 Remi Collet <remi@remirepo.net> - 7.2~rc1-2
+- drop redis-shutdown helper and rely on systemd #2181181
+
 * Thu Mar 23 2023 Remi Collet <remi@remirepo.net> - 7.2~rc1-1
 - Upstream 7.2-rc1 release candidate.