diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
index 9cb3a62bc3494fc65c76a4b274f31db018440507..480d2ae7a5cb43a9dd971a442cf012d56ff2f899 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slurm.conf.5
@@ -3434,7 +3434,7 @@ parameter). If the slurmd daemon is run in the foreground (started with the
 \fB\-D\fR command line option) the \fBSlurmdSyslogDebug\fR configuration
 parameter will be ignored.
 The default value is \fBquiet\fR unless there is no configured
-\fBSlurmdLogFile\fR, in which case the default value will be \fBfatal\bR so
+\fBSlurmdLogFile\fR, in which case the default value will be \fBfatal\fR so
 that fatal errors are logged somewhere.
 
 .RS