diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f828fd42..929b2d27 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3179,7 +3179,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "lazy_static",
  "regex",
  "spandoc",
- "tempdir",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "tower",
@@ -3219,6 +3218,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "once_cell",
  "rand 0.7.3",
  "serde",
+ "tempdir",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
  "toml",
diff --git a/zebra-test/Cargo.toml b/zebra-test/Cargo.toml
index 53568561..d139717b 100644
--- a/zebra-test/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zebra-test/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ color-eyre = "0.5"
 tracing = "0.1.19"
 tracing-subscriber = "0.2.11"
 tracing-error = "0.1.2"
-tempdir = "0.3.7"
 spandoc = "0.2.0"
 regex = "1.3.9"
 thiserror = "1.0.20"
diff --git a/zebra-test/src/command.rs b/zebra-test/src/command.rs
index 88f94f7f..94e78aa9 100644
--- a/zebra-test/src/command.rs
+++ b/zebra-test/src/command.rs
@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@ use color_eyre::{
     eyre::{eyre, Context, Report, Result},
     Help, SectionExt,
 };
+use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::process::{Child, Command, ExitStatus, Output};
-use std::{fs, io::Write, path::PathBuf};
-use tempdir::TempDir;
 
 #[cfg(unix)]
 use std::os::unix::process::ExitStatusExt;
@@ -17,28 +16,6 @@ pub fn test_cmd(command_path: &str, tempdir: &PathBuf) -> Result<Command> {
     Ok(cmd)
 }
 
-/// Create a temp directory and optional config file
-pub fn tempdir(create_config: bool) -> Result<(PathBuf, impl Drop)> {
-    let dir = TempDir::new("zebrad_tests")?;
-
-    if create_config {
-        let cache_dir = dir.path().join("state");
-        fs::create_dir(&cache_dir)?;
-        fs::File::create(dir.path().join("zebrad.toml"))?.write_all(
-            format!(
-                "[state]\ncache_dir = '{}'\nmemory_cache_bytes = 256000000\n[network]\nlisten_addr = '127.0.0.1:0'\n",
-                cache_dir
-                    .into_os_string()
-                    .into_string()
-                    .map_err(|_| eyre!("tmp dir path cannot be encoded as UTF8"))?
-            )
-            .as_bytes(),
-        )?;
-    }
-
-    Ok((dir.path().to_path_buf(), dir))
-}
-
 pub trait CommandExt {
     /// wrapper for `status` fn on `Command` that constructs informative error
     /// reports
diff --git a/zebra-test/src/prelude.rs b/zebra-test/src/prelude.rs
index cd28ee3a..3f9cd33f 100644
--- a/zebra-test/src/prelude.rs
+++ b/zebra-test/src/prelude.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-pub use crate::command::{tempdir, test_cmd, CommandExt, TestChild};
+pub use crate::command::{test_cmd, CommandExt, TestChild};
 pub use std::process::Stdio;
 
-pub use tempdir::TempDir;
-
 pub use color_eyre;
 pub use color_eyre::eyre;
 pub use eyre::Result;
diff --git a/zebrad/Cargo.toml b/zebrad/Cargo.toml
index b7632bc5..4de181df 100644
--- a/zebrad/Cargo.toml
+++ b/zebrad/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,4 +40,5 @@ inferno = { version = "0.10.0", default-features = false }
 [dev-dependencies]
 abscissa_core = { version = "0.5", features = ["testing"] }
 once_cell = "1.4"
+tempdir = "0.3.7"
 zebra-test = { path = "../zebra-test" }
diff --git a/zebrad/tests/acceptance.rs b/zebrad/tests/acceptance.rs
index c91141b7..f9cd70c9 100644
--- a/zebrad/tests/acceptance.rs
+++ b/zebrad/tests/acceptance.rs
@@ -5,8 +5,31 @@
 #![forbid(unsafe_code)]
 
 use color_eyre::eyre::Result;
-use std::{path::PathBuf, time::Duration};
+use std::{fs, io::Write, path::PathBuf, time::Duration};
+use tempdir::TempDir;
+use toml;
+
 use zebra_test::prelude::*;
+use zebrad::config::ZebradConfig;
+
+pub fn tempdir(create_config: bool) -> Result<(PathBuf, impl Drop)> {
+    let dir = TempDir::new("zebrad_tests")?;
+
+    if create_config {
+        let cache_dir = dir.path().join("state");
+        fs::create_dir(&cache_dir)?;
+
+        let mut config = ZebradConfig::default();
+        config.state.cache_dir = cache_dir;
+        config.state.memory_cache_bytes = 256000000;
+        config.network.listen_addr = "127.0.0.1:0".parse()?;
+
+        fs::File::create(dir.path().join("zebrad.toml"))?
+            .write_all(toml::to_string(&config)?.as_bytes())?;
+    }
+
+    Ok((dir.path().to_path_buf(), dir))
+}
 
 pub fn get_child(args: &[&str], tempdir: &PathBuf) -> Result<TestChild> {
     let mut cmd = test_cmd(env!("CARGO_BIN_EXE_zebrad"), &tempdir)?;