diff --git a/src/slurmctld/controller.c b/src/slurmctld/controller.c
index 514a4b935825935ce71e0d9f48fe8e9885dee269..a1f07920772dd3bb1485722dea7f63bf40367c37 100644
--- a/src/slurmctld/controller.c
+++ b/src/slurmctld/controller.c
@@ -439,8 +439,10 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		sleep(1);
 	}
 #endif
-
-	info("Slurmctld shutdown completing with %d active agent threads\n\n", cnt);
+	if (cnt) {
+		info("Slurmctld shutdown completing with %d active agent "
+			"threads\n\n", cnt);
+	}
 	log_fini();
 	
 	if (dump_core)