diff --git a/tools/rsyslogd.c b/tools/rsyslogd.c
index 6daa97b1e..3d12f58b6 100644
--- a/tools/rsyslogd.c
+++ b/tools/rsyslogd.c
@@ -461,18 +461,11 @@ prepareBackground(const int parentPipeFD)
 		if(close_unneeded_open_files("/proc/fd", beginClose, parentPipeFD) != 0) {
 			/* did not work out, so let's close everything... */
 			const int endClose = getdtablesize();
-#		if defined(HAVE_CLOSE_RANGE)
-			if(close_range(beginClose, endClose, 0) != 0) {
-				dbgprintf("errno %d after close_range(), fallback to loop\n", errno);
-#		endif
 				for(int i = beginClose ; i <= endClose ; ++i) {
 					if((i != dbgGetDbglogFd()) && (i != parentPipeFD)) {
 						  aix_close_it(i); /* AIXPORT */
-					}
 				}
-#		if defined(HAVE_CLOSE_RANGE)
 			}
-#		endif
 		}
 	}
 	seedRandomNumberForChild();