diff --git a/apps/routerconsole/jsp/error500.jsp b/apps/routerconsole/jsp/error500.jsp
index 2b420e4f6d13b49d60a7e1abd536068130d98fca..2ffeadff87f4e87ee3c070a0d27b00b1ba52b7a5 100644
--- a/apps/routerconsole/jsp/error500.jsp
+++ b/apps/routerconsole/jsp/error500.jsp
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 <%@page contentType="text/html"%>
-<%@page trimDirectiveWhitespaces="true"%>
 <%@page pageEncoding="UTF-8"%>
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
 <%
diff --git a/core/java/src/net/i2p/util/LogManager.java b/core/java/src/net/i2p/util/LogManager.java
index cf6cb9593c48a513fb5ae86c8537108b16f9289c..b166aa9eae796621c25dcc8c13586eff29ef2187 100644
--- a/core/java/src/net/i2p/util/LogManager.java
+++ b/core/java/src/net/i2p/util/LogManager.java
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public class LogManager {
     //public final static String DEFAULT_DATEFORMAT = "HH:mm:ss.SSS";
     /** blank means default short date and medium time for the locale - see DateFormat */
     public final static String DEFAULT_DATEFORMAT = "";
-    public final static String DEFAULT_FILENAME = "logs/log-#.txt";
+    public final static String DEFAULT_FILENAME = "logs/log-@.txt";
     public final static String DEFAULT_FILESIZE = "10m";
     public final static boolean DEFAULT_DISPLAYONSCREEN = true;
     public final static int DEFAULT_CONSOLEBUFFERSIZE = 20;
@@ -349,9 +349,9 @@ public class LogManager {
 
         String filenameOverride = _context.getProperty(FILENAME_OVERRIDE_PROP);
         if (filenameOverride != null)
-            _baseLogfilename = filenameOverride;
+            setBaseLogfilename(filenameOverride);
         else
-            _baseLogfilename = config.getProperty(PROP_FILENAME, DEFAULT_FILENAME);
+            setBaseLogfilename(config.getProperty(PROP_FILENAME, DEFAULT_FILENAME));
 
         _fileSize = getFileSize(config.getProperty(PROP_FILESIZE, DEFAULT_FILESIZE));
         _rotationLimit = -1;
@@ -591,7 +591,8 @@ public class LogManager {
     }
     
     public void setBaseLogfilename(String filenamePattern) {
-        _baseLogfilename = filenamePattern;
+        // '#' is a comment character in loadProps/storeProps
+        _baseLogfilename = filenamePattern.replace('#', '@');
     }
 
     public int getFileSize() {