diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 20f5ade3d686a..2e8bd7646bb46 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -6993,7 +6993,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "mz-storage-types",
  "mz-timely-util",
  "mz-txn-wal",
- "nix 0.31.3",
  "num_cpus",
  "rustls",
  "serde",
diff --git a/src/clusterd/Cargo.toml b/src/clusterd/Cargo.toml
index b4193661fc946..2a8b9eaeef004 100644
--- a/src/clusterd/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/clusterd/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ mz-storage = { path = "../storage" }
 mz-storage-types = { path = "../storage-types" }
 mz-timely-util = { path = "../timely-util" }
 mz-txn-wal = { path = "../txn-wal" }
-nix.workspace = true
 num_cpus.workspace = true
 rustls.workspace = true
 serde.workspace = true