diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-bdb.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-bdb.5
index b02a63b79e..6b10c732b1 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-bdb.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-bdb.5
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Both arguments default to zero, in which case they are ignored. When
 the \fI<min>\fP argument is non-zero, an internal task will run every 
 \fI<min>\fP minutes to perform the checkpoint.
 See the Berkeley DB reference guide for more details.
-.TB
+.TP
 .B checksum
 Enable checksum validation of DB pages whenever they are read from disk.
 This setting can only be configured before any database files are created.