diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a021735e7280c0a30d3df25d4f1ea1fdbb598e51..965c3f5a3de43e0bd5cc2052971d619b200ee3d0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ rsync_server_chroot: true
 rsync_server_symlinks: false
 rsync_server_list: false
 rsync_server_exclude_compress: "*"
-rsync_server_log_path: /var/log/rsyncd.log
+rsync_server_log_path: ""  # sends to syslog, to store locally specify path ex. /var/log/rsyncd.log
 rsync_server_log_transfer: true
 rsync_server_log_format: "%o %h [%a] %f %'l"
 rsync_server_pid_path: /var/run/rsyncd.pid
diff --git a/defaults/main.yml b/defaults/main.yml
index ffdc32a64be405a8b75c1f33e3a247ab21eb02f6..1414b15f3ae69c8ae7813ffc03d3c114bbff9590 100644
--- a/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/defaults/main.yml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ rsync_server_chroot: true
 rsync_server_symlinks: false
 rsync_server_list: false
 rsync_server_exclude_compress: "*"
-rsync_server_log_path: /var/log/rsyncd.log
+rsync_server_log_path: ""  # sends to syslog, to store locally specify path ex. /var/log/rsyncd.log
 rsync_server_log_transfer: true
 rsync_server_log_format: "%o %h [%a] %f %'l"
 rsync_server_pid_path: /var/run/rsyncd.pid
diff --git a/templates/etc-rsyncd-conf.j2 b/templates/etc-rsyncd-conf.j2
index 7dd60eb45a189149653d938f8c0777c5da15a8a9..ad6868d5640a97afff3aad356f5a7b909a48c497 100644
--- a/templates/etc-rsyncd-conf.j2
+++ b/templates/etc-rsyncd-conf.j2
@@ -22,8 +22,11 @@
 uid = {{ rsync_server_uid }}
 gid = {{ rsync_server_gid }}
 use chroot = {{ rsync_server_chroot }}
-log file = {{ rsync_server_log_path }}
+{% if rsync_server_log_path|length %}
 transfer logging = {{ rsync_server_log_transfer }}
+{% endif %}
+log file = {{ rsync_server_log_path }}
+
 log format = {{ rsync_server_log_format }}
 pid file = {{ rsync_server_pid_path }}
 dont compress = {{ rsync_server_exclude_compress }}