diff --git a/etc/slurm.conf.example b/etc/slurm.conf.example
index aa590edb8abbeda461eebd915416590d6956e3bd..2558c511c03263c4ee41c38131317fd9e4c5e95e 100644
--- a/etc/slurm.conf.example
+++ b/etc/slurm.conf.example
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@
 #   be the fully qualified pathname of a file into which text 
 #   records are appended.
 #
-# JobCompLoc = /var/log/slurm.job.log
+# JobCompLoc=/var/log/slurm.job.log
 
 #
 # o Define the places to look for SLURM plugins.  This is a