diff --git a/sslh-main.c b/sslh-main.c
index 9cc8a06..607b44f 100644
--- a/sslh-main.c
+++ b/sslh-main.c
@@ -280,7 +280,10 @@ static int config_parse(char *filename, struct addrinfo **listen, struct proto *
 
     config_init(&config);
     if (config_read_file(&config, filename) == CONFIG_FALSE) {
-        if (config_error_type(&config) == CONFIG_ERR_PARSE) {
+/* If it's a parse error then there will be a line number for the failure
+ * an I/O error (such as non-existent file) will have the error line as 0
+ */
+        if (config_error_line(&config) != 0) {
             fprintf(stderr, "%s:%d:%s\n", 
                     filename,
                     config_error_line(&config),