diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8eeb64f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[MESSAGES CONTROL]
+disable=invalid-name, missing-docstring, too-many-instance-attributes, too-few-public-methods, logging-format-interpolation
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 6a88334..c1c9c1f 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ deps=
     six
 commands=
 	pep8 amodem/ scripts/ tests/ amodem-cli
-	pylint --extension-pkg-whitelist=numpy --report=no amodem
+	pylint --extension-pkg-whitelist=numpy --report=no amodem --rcfile .pylintrc
 	coverage run --source amodem/ -m py.test -v tests/
 	coverage report