diff --git a/src/config/Makefile.am b/src/config/Makefile.am
index 86a192b9b5..13ed39d7fa 100644
--- a/src/config/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/config/Makefile.am
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ confdir = $(sysconfdir)/tor
 
 EXTRA_DIST = dirservers
 
-conf_DATA = dirservers torrc
+conf_DATA = dirservers torrc.sample
diff --git a/src/config/torrc.in b/src/config/torrc.sample.in
similarity index 100%
rename from src/config/torrc.in
rename to src/config/torrc.sample.in