diff --git a/config/csync_log.conf b/config/csync_log.conf
index 3ba4df6fb5..7a71490878 100644
--- a/config/csync_log.conf
+++ b/config/csync_log.conf
@@ -3,22 +3,19 @@
 
 <log4c version="1.2.1">
 
-  <config>
-    <bufsize>0</bufsize>
-    <debug level="0"/>
-    <nocleanup>0</nocleanup>
-  </config>
-
   <!-- root category ========================================= -->
   <category name="root" priority="none"/>
 
-  <!-- categories for more verbose logging output ============ -->
-  <!-- as a user you may be interested in the debug priority = -->
+  <!-- Categories for more verbose logging output ============ -->
+  <!--
+   ** As a user you may be interested in the "debug" priority and
+   ** use "file" as the appender.
+  -->
   <category name="csync.updater" priority="notice" appender="stderr"/>
   <category name="csync.reconciler" priority="notice" appender="stderr"/>
   <category name="csync.propagator" priority="notice" appender="stderr"/>
 
-  <!-- categories debug logging output ============ -->
+  <!-- Categories debug logging output ============ -->
   <category name="csync.api" priority="notice" appender="stderr"/>
   <category name="csync.config" priority="notice" appender="stderr"/>
   <category name="csync.statedb" priority="notice" appender="stderr"/>
@@ -27,18 +24,26 @@
   <category name="csync.util" priority="notice" appender="stderr"/>
   <category name="csync.vio.main" priority="notice" appender="stderr"/>
 
-  <!-- default appenders ===================================== -->
+  <!-- Default appenders ===================================== -->
   <appender name="stdout" type="stream" layout="basic"/>
   <appender name="stderr" type="stream" layout="dated"/>
   <appender name="syslog" type="syslog" layout="basic"/>
   <appender name="file" type="rollingfile" logdir="." prefix="csync.log"
     layout="dated" rollingpolicy="csync_rollingpolicy"/>
 
-  <!-- default layouts ======================================= -->
+  <!-- Default layouts ======================================= -->
   <layout name="basic" type="basic"/>
   <layout name="dated" type="dated"/>
 
-  <!-- default policies  ===================================== -->
+  <!-- Default policies  ===================================== -->
   <rollingpolicy name="csync_rollingpolicy" type="sizewin" maxsize="1024000"
     maxnum="100000" />
+
+  <!-- log4c config variables, don't touch them. -->
+  <config>
+    <bufsize>0</bufsize>
+    <debug level="0"/>
+    <nocleanup>0</nocleanup>
+  </config>
+
 </log4c>