diff --git a/src/core/manager.c b/src/core/manager.c
index 9c68eb49d1..e83a0dd5e6 100644
--- a/src/core/manager.c
+++ b/src/core/manager.c
@@ -3601,16 +3601,10 @@ void manager_recheck_journal(Manager *m) {
         if (getpid_cached() != 1)
                 return;
 
-        if (manager_journal_is_running(m)) {
-
-                /* The journal is fully and entirely up? If so, let's permit logging to it, if that's configured. */
-                log_set_prohibit_ipc(false);
-        } else {
-
-                /* If the journal is down, don't ever log to it, otherwise we might end up deadlocking ourselves as we
-                 * might trigger an activation ourselves we can't fulfill */
-                log_set_prohibit_ipc(true);
-        }
+        /* The journal is fully and entirely up? If so, let's permit logging to it, if that's configured. If the
+         * journal is down, don't ever log to it, otherwise we might end up deadlocking ourselves as we might trigger
+         * an activation ourselves we can't fulfill. */
+        log_set_prohibit_ipc(!manager_journal_is_running(m));
         log_open();
 }