diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1f58c70c..ac844a51 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 1.5.16.dev0
+ * #407: Fix syslog logging on FreeBSD.
  * Better error messages! Switch the library used for validating configuration files (from pykwalify
    to jsonschema).
  * Link borgmatic Ansible role from installation documentation:
diff --git a/borgmatic/logger.py b/borgmatic/logger.py
index 84a31660..2d0bc1ca 100644
--- a/borgmatic/logger.py
+++ b/borgmatic/logger.py
@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ def configure_logging(
             syslog_path = '/dev/log'
         elif os.path.exists('/var/run/syslog'):
             syslog_path = '/var/run/syslog'
+        elif os.path.exists('/var/run/log'):
+            syslog_path = '/var/run/log'
 
     if syslog_path and not interactive_console():
         syslog_handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address=syslog_path)
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_logger.py b/tests/unit/test_logger.py
index 707376bc..ec46a588 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_logger.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_logger.py
@@ -179,6 +179,26 @@ def test_configure_logging_probes_for_log_socket_on_macos():
     module.configure_logging(logging.INFO)
 
 
+def test_configure_logging_probes_for_log_socket_on_freebsd():
+    flexmock(module).should_receive('Multi_stream_handler').and_return(
+        flexmock(setFormatter=lambda formatter: None, setLevel=lambda level: None)
+    )
+    flexmock(module).should_receive('Console_color_formatter')
+    flexmock(module).should_receive('interactive_console').and_return(False)
+    flexmock(module.logging).should_receive('basicConfig').with_args(
+        level=logging.INFO, handlers=tuple
+    )
+    flexmock(module.os.path).should_receive('exists').with_args('/dev/log').and_return(False)
+    flexmock(module.os.path).should_receive('exists').with_args('/var/run/syslog').and_return(False)
+    flexmock(module.os.path).should_receive('exists').with_args('/var/run/log').and_return(True)
+    syslog_handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler()
+    flexmock(module.logging.handlers).should_receive('SysLogHandler').with_args(
+        address='/var/run/log'
+    ).and_return(syslog_handler).once()
+
+    module.configure_logging(logging.INFO)
+
+
 def test_configure_logging_sets_global_logger_to_most_verbose_log_level():
     flexmock(module).should_receive('Multi_stream_handler').and_return(
         flexmock(setFormatter=lambda formatter: None, setLevel=lambda level: None)