diff --git a/tests/sshserver.pl b/tests/sshserver.pl
index 8ac7380040b3602bc8e62e2490fea3c47ba7c2e1..88f3727fcf39cfa5bdc73e6fbc9079b166a875d2 100644
--- a/tests/sshserver.pl
+++ b/tests/sshserver.pl
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ use sshhelp qw(
 
 #***************************************************************************
 
-my $verbose = 1;              # set to 1 for debugging
+my $verbose = 0;              # set to 1 for debugging
 my $debugprotocol = 0;        # set to 1 for protocol debugging
 my $port = 8999;              # our default SCP/SFTP server port
 my $socksport = $port + 1;    # our default SOCKS4/5 server port
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ while(@ARGV) {
 #***************************************************************************
 # Logging level for ssh server and client
 #
-my $loglevel = $debugprotocol?'DEBUG2':'INFO';
+my $loglevel = $debugprotocol?'DEBUG3':'DEBUG2';
 
 
 #***************************************************************************
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ if($error) {
 }
 @cfgarr = ();
 
-logmsg "TRACESSH:sshserver.pl: sshd will use pidfile $path/.ssh.pid";
+
 #***************************************************************************
 # Start the ssh server daemon without forking it
 #