diff --git a/poller-service.py b/poller-service.py
index b545e4bcd..69a436176 100755
--- a/poller-service.py
+++ b/poller-service.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#! /usr/bin/env python
+#! /usr/bin/env python2
 """
  poller-service A service to wrap SNMP polling.  It will poll up to $threads devices at a time, and will not re-poll
                 devices that have been polled within the last $poll_frequency seconds. It will prioritize devices based
diff --git a/poller-wrapper.py b/poller-wrapper.py
index 43e91f76a..1fa00b461 100755
--- a/poller-wrapper.py
+++ b/poller-wrapper.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#! /usr/bin/env python
+#! /usr/bin/env python2
 """
  poller-wrapper A small tool which wraps around the poller and tries to
                 guide the polling process with a more modern approach with a
diff --git a/scripts/agent-local/nginx b/scripts/agent-local/nginx
index d6319f1b2..b0a6a5092 100755
--- a/scripts/agent-local/nginx
+++ b/scripts/agent-local/nginx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 import urllib2
 import re
 
diff --git a/scripts/mysql-stats b/scripts/mysql-stats
index 1a215832e..d191bdbbc 100644
--- a/scripts/mysql-stats
+++ b/scripts/mysql-stats
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 import warnings
 import re
 warnings.filterwarnings(action="ignore", message='the sets module is deprecated')
diff --git a/scripts/nginx-stats b/scripts/nginx-stats
index a3c14fa52..1cedca5ba 100644
--- a/scripts/nginx-stats
+++ b/scripts/nginx-stats
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
+#!/usr/bin/env python2
 import urllib2
 import re