diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 3e4d3104a..9906b2c34 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -60,12 +60,12 @@ before_script:
 
 script:
 # Check Python code
-- flake8 ./monkey --config ./ci_scripts/flake8_syntax_check.config
+- flake8 ./monkey --config=./ci_scripts/flake8_syntax_check.ini
 
 ## Warn about linter issues.
 ### --exit-zero forces Flake8 to use the exit status code 0 even if there are errors, which means this will NOT fail the build.
 ### The output is redirected to a file.
-- flake8 ./monkey --exit-zero --config ./ci_scripts/flake8_linter_check.config > ./ci_scripts/flake8_warnings.txt
+- flake8 ./monkey --exit-zero --config=./ci_scripts/flake8_linter_check.ini > ./ci_scripts/flake8_warnings.txt
 ## Display the linter issues
 - cat ./ci_scripts/flake8_warnings.txt
 ## Make sure that we haven't increased the amount of warnings.
diff --git a/ci_scripts/flake8_linter_check.cfg b/ci_scripts/flake8_linter_check.ini
similarity index 100%
rename from ci_scripts/flake8_linter_check.cfg
rename to ci_scripts/flake8_linter_check.ini
diff --git a/ci_scripts/flake8_syntax_check.cfg b/ci_scripts/flake8_syntax_check.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 7171e3db6..000000000
--- a/ci_scripts/flake8_syntax_check.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-[flake8]
-
-## Check syntax errors and fail the build if any are found.
-exclude = ../monkey/monkey_island/cc/ui,
-          ../monkey/common/cloud
-select = E901,E999,F821,F822,F823
-count = True
-show-source = True
-statistics = True
diff --git a/ci_scripts/flake8_syntax_check.ini b/ci_scripts/flake8_syntax_check.ini
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..969379326
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci_scripts/flake8_syntax_check.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+[flake8]
+
+## Check syntax errors and fail the build if any are found.
+exclude =
+    ../monkey/monkey_island/cc/ui,
+    ../monkey/common/cloud
+select =
+    E901,
+    E999,
+    F821,
+    F822,
+    F823
+count = True
+show-source = True
+statistics = True