diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5312501a3..bb69e5c0f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1217,7 +1217,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "miette",
  "mimalloc",
  "mockall",
- "nix 0.29.0",
  "pest",
  "pest_derive",
  "polling",
diff --git a/core/Cargo.toml b/core/Cargo.toml
index c0c12a0a3..0daa58c0d 100644
--- a/core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/core/Cargo.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ fallible-iterator = "0.3.0"
 hex = "0.4.3"
 libc = "0.2.155"
 log = "0.4.20"
-nix = { version = "0.29.0", features = ["fs"] }
 sieve-cache = "0.1.4"
 sqlite3-parser = { path = "../vendored/sqlite3-parser" }
 thiserror = "1.0.61"