diff --git a/src/opnsense/service/templates/OPNsense/Syslog/newsyslog.conf b/src/opnsense/service/templates/OPNsense/Syslog/newsyslog.conf
index d36200726..dcda19e18 100644
--- a/src/opnsense/service/templates/OPNsense/Syslog/newsyslog.conf
+++ b/src/opnsense/service/templates/OPNsense/Syslog/newsyslog.conf
@@ -19,3 +19,4 @@
 # logfilename          [owner:group]    mode count size when  flags [/pid_file] [sig_num]
 <include> /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/*
 <include> /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/*
+{# leave this line in place, needed to parse the correct end of line #}
\ No newline at end of file