diff --git a/plugins/apache/apache_smaps b/plugins/apache/apache_smaps
index abc0974e..905fe471 100755
--- a/plugins/apache/apache_smaps
+++ b/plugins/apache/apache_smaps
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ if (!eval "require Linux::Smaps;") {
 my $PNAME = exists $ENV{'pname'} ? $ENV{'pname'} : "httpd";
 my $PUSER = exists $ENV{'puser'} ? $ENV{'puser'} : "apache";
 
-if (defined(@ARGV) && ($ARGV[0] eq 'config')) {
+if (@ARGV && ($ARGV[0] eq 'config')) {
   print "graph_title Apache Smaps\n";
   print "graph_args --base 1024 -l 0\n";
   print "graph_vlabel Bytes\n";
diff --git a/plugins/other/proc_ b/plugins/other/proc_
index 473da807..751a5699 100755
--- a/plugins/other/proc_
+++ b/plugins/other/proc_
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ sub populate_stats
 # Bail-function.
 sub usage
 {
-    if (defined(@_) && "@_" ne "") {
+    if (@_ && "@_" ne "") {
         print STDERR "@_" . "\n\n";
     }
     print STDERR "Known arguments: suggest, config, autoconf.\n";