diff --git a/salt/utils/parsers.py b/salt/utils/parsers.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/salt/utils/parsers.py
+++ b/salt/utils/parsers.py
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ class OptionParser(optparse.OptionParser):
 
         if self.config.get('conf_file', None) is not None:
             logging.getLogger(__name__).info(
-                'Loaded configuration file: {0}'.format(
+                'Configuration file path: {0}'.format(
                     self.config['conf_file']
                 )
             )
Fix log message. The file might not have been loaded(if it does not exist for example).