diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
index d495e94000..890f18a2bb 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd.conf.5
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ continuing with the next line of the current file.
 .\"only go to stderr and are not recorded anywhere else. Specifying a logfile
 .\"copies messages to both stderr and the logfile.
 .TP
-.B loglevel <integer>
+.B loglevel <integer> [...]
 Specify the level at which debugging statements and operation 
 statistics should be syslogged (currently logged to the
 .BR syslogd (8) 
@@ -523,42 +523,57 @@ are:
 .PD 0
 .TP
 .B 1
+.B (trace)
 trace function calls
 .TP
 .B 2
+.B (packet)
 debug packet handling
 .TP
 .B 4
+.B (args)
 heavy trace debugging
 .TP
 .B 8
+.B (conns)
 connection management
 .TP
 .B 16
+.B (BER)
 print out packets sent and received
 .TP
 .B 32
+.B (filter)
 search filter processing
 .TP
 .B 64
+.B (config)
 configuration file processing
 .TP
 .B 128
+.B (ACL)
 access control list processing
 .TP
 .B 256
+.B (stats)
 stats log connections/operations/results
 .TP
 .B 512
+.B (stats2)
 stats log entries sent
 .TP
 .B 1024
+.B (shell)
 print communication with shell backends
 .TP
 .B 2048
+.B (parse)
 entry parsing
 .PD
 .RE
+The desired log level can be input as a single integer that combines 
+the (ORed) desired levels, as a list of integers (that are ORed internally),
+or as a list of the names that are shown between brackets.
 .RE
 .TP
 .B moduleload <filename>
@@ -644,7 +659,7 @@ during processing of LDAP Password Modify Extended Operations (RFC 3062).
 This string needs to be in
 .BR sprintf (3)
 format and may include one (and only one) %s conversion.
-This conversion will be substituted with a string random
+This conversion will be substituted with a string of random
 characters from [A\-Za\-z0\-9./].  For example, "%.2s"
 provides a two character salt and "$1$%.8s" tells some
 versions of crypt(3) to use an MD5 algorithm and provides
diff --git a/servers/slapd/config.c b/servers/slapd/config.c
index 9868742c96..560275d3f1 100644
--- a/servers/slapd/config.c
+++ b/servers/slapd/config.c
@@ -1965,18 +1965,69 @@ restrict_unknown:;
 			ldap_syslog = 0;
 
 			for( i=1; i < cargc; i++ ) {
-				int	level = strtol( cargv[i], &next, 10 );
-				if ( next == NULL || next[0] != '\0' ) {
+				int	level;
+
+				if ( isdigit( cargv[i][0] ) ) {
+					level = strtol( cargv[i], &next, 10 );
+					if ( next == NULL || next[0] != '\0' ) {
 #ifdef NEW_LOGGING
-					LDAP_LOG( CONFIG, CRIT, 
-						"%s: line %d: unable to parse level \"%s\" in \"loglevel <level> [...]\""
-						" line.\n", fname, lineno , cargv[i] );
+						LDAP_LOG( CONFIG, CRIT, 
+							"%s: line %d: unable to parse level \"%s\" "
+							"in \"loglevel <level> [...]\" line.\n",
+							fname, lineno , cargv[i] );
 #else
-					Debug( LDAP_DEBUG_ANY,
-						"%s: line %d: unable to parse level \"%s\" in \"loglevel <level> [...]\""
-						" line.\n", fname, lineno , cargv[i] );
+						Debug( LDAP_DEBUG_ANY,
+							"%s: line %d: unable to parse level \"%s\" "
+							"in \"loglevel <level> [...]\" line.\n",
+							fname, lineno , cargv[i] );
 #endif
-					return( 1 );
+						return( 1 );
+					}
+					
+				} else {
+					static struct {
+						int	i;
+						char	*s;
+					} int_2_level[] = {
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_TRACE,	"Trace"		},
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_PACKETS,	"Packets"	},
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_ARGS,	"Args"		},
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_CONNS,	"Conns"		},
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_BER,	"BER"		},
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_FILTER,	"Filter"	},
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_CONFIG,	"Config"	},
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_ACL,	"ACL"		},
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_STATS,	"Stats"		},
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_STATS2,	"Stats2"	},
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_SHELL,	"Shell"		},
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_PARSE,	"Parse"		},
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_CACHE,	"Cache"		},
+						{ LDAP_DEBUG_INDEX,	"Index"		},
+						{ 0,			NULL		}
+					};
+					int	j;
+
+					for ( j = 0; int_2_level[j].s; j++ ) {
+						if ( strcasecmp( cargv[i], int_2_level[j].s ) == 0 ) {
+							level = int_2_level[j].i;
+							break;
+						}
+					}
+
+					if ( int_2_level[j].s == NULL ) {
+#ifdef NEW_LOGGING
+						LDAP_LOG( CONFIG, CRIT, 
+							"%s: line %d: unknown level \"%s\" "
+							"in \"loglevel <level> [...]\" line.\n",
+							fname, lineno , cargv[i] );
+#else
+						Debug( LDAP_DEBUG_ANY,
+							"%s: line %d: unknown level \"%s\" "
+							"in \"loglevel <level> [...]\" line.\n",
+							fname, lineno , cargv[i] );
+#endif
+						return( 1 );
+					}
 				}
 
 				ldap_syslog |= level;