diff --git a/src/alert-debuglog.c b/src/alert-debuglog.c
index f0d778fe60..019ea86814 100644
--- a/src/alert-debuglog.c
+++ b/src/alert-debuglog.c
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ OutputCtx *AlertDebugLogInitCtx(ConfNode *conf)
     output_ctx->data = file_ctx;
     output_ctx->DeInit = AlertDebugLogDeInitCtx;
 
-    SCLogInfo("Alert debug log output initialized");
+    SCLogDebug("Alert debug log output initialized");
     return output_ctx;
 
 error:
diff --git a/src/alert-fastlog.c b/src/alert-fastlog.c
index a4d4634b29..256c16bba7 100644
--- a/src/alert-fastlog.c
+++ b/src/alert-fastlog.c
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ void AlertFastLogExitPrintStats(ThreadVars *tv, void *data) {
         return;
     }
 
-    SCLogInfo("(%s) Alerts %" PRIu64 "", tv->name, aft->file_ctx->alerts);
+    SCLogInfo("Fast log output wrote %" PRIu64 " alerts", aft->file_ctx->alerts);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/detect-pcre.c b/src/detect-pcre.c
index 4be8c5001f..24bc1a8090 100644
--- a/src/detect-pcre.c
+++ b/src/detect-pcre.c
@@ -121,21 +121,31 @@ void DetectPcreRegister (void) {
 
     if (!ConfGetInt("pcre.match-limit", &val)) {
         pcre_match_limit = SC_MATCH_LIMIT_DEFAULT;
+        SCLogDebug("Using PCRE match-limit setting of: %i", pcre_match_limit);
     }
     else    {
         pcre_match_limit = val;
+        if (pcre_match_limit != SC_MATCH_LIMIT_DEFAULT) {
+            SCLogInfo("Using PCRE match-limit setting of: %i", pcre_match_limit);
+        } else {
+            SCLogDebug("Using PCRE match-limit setting of: %i", pcre_match_limit);
+        }
     }
-    SCLogInfo("Using PCRE match-limit setting of: %i", pcre_match_limit);
 
     val = 0;
 
     if (!ConfGetInt("pcre.match-limit-recursion", &val)) {
         pcre_match_limit_recursion = SC_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION_DEFAULT;
+        SCLogDebug("Using PCRE match-limit-recursion setting of: %i", pcre_match_limit_recursion);
     }
     else    {
         pcre_match_limit_recursion = val;
+        if (pcre_match_limit_recursion != SC_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION_DEFAULT) {
+            SCLogInfo("Using PCRE match-limit-recursion setting of: %i", pcre_match_limit_recursion);
+        } else {
+            SCLogDebug("Using PCRE match-limit-recursion setting of: %i", pcre_match_limit_recursion);
+        }
     }
-    SCLogInfo("Using PCRE match-limit-recursion setting of: %i", pcre_match_limit_recursion);
 
     parse_regex = pcre_compile(PARSE_REGEX, opts, &eb, &eo, NULL);
     if(parse_regex == NULL)
diff --git a/src/detect.c b/src/detect.c
index 6188a3c766..57415b676f 100644
--- a/src/detect.c
+++ b/src/detect.c
@@ -454,13 +454,13 @@ int DetectLoadSigFile(DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx, char *sig_file, int *sigs_tot) {
     int lineno = 0, multiline = 0;
 
     if (sig_file == NULL) {
-        SCLogError(SC_ERR_INVALID_ARGUMENT, "ERROR opening rule file null.");
+        SCLogError(SC_ERR_INVALID_ARGUMENT, "opening rule file null");
         return -1;
     }
 
     FILE *fp = fopen(sig_file, "r");
     if (fp == NULL) {
-        SCLogError(SC_ERR_OPENING_RULE_FILE, "ERROR opening rule file %s:"
+        SCLogError(SC_ERR_OPENING_RULE_FILE, "opening rule file %s:"
                    " %s.", sig_file, strerror(errno));
         return -1;
     }
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ int DetectLoadSigFile(DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx, char *sig_file, int *sigs_tot) {
             SCLogDebug("signature %"PRIu32" loaded", sig->id);
             good++;
         } else {
-            SCLogError(SC_ERR_INVALID_SIGNATURE, "Error parsing signature \"%s\" from "
+            SCLogError(SC_ERR_INVALID_SIGNATURE, "error parsing signature \"%s\" from "
                  "file %s at line %"PRId32"", line, sig_file, lineno - multiline);
             if (de_ctx->failure_fatal == 1) {
                 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
@@ -3672,12 +3672,12 @@ int SigAddressPrepareStage3(DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx) {
     DetectPortSpHashFree(de_ctx);
 
     if (!(de_ctx->flags & DE_QUIET)) {
-        SCLogInfo("MPM memory %" PRIuMAX " (dynamic %" PRIu32 ", ctxs %" PRIuMAX ", avg per ctx %" PRIu32 ")",
+        SCLogDebug("MPM memory %" PRIuMAX " (dynamic %" PRIu32 ", ctxs %" PRIuMAX ", avg per ctx %" PRIu32 ")",
             de_ctx->mpm_memory_size + ((de_ctx->mpm_unique + de_ctx->mpm_uri_unique) * (uintmax_t)sizeof(MpmCtx)),
             de_ctx->mpm_memory_size, ((de_ctx->mpm_unique + de_ctx->mpm_uri_unique) * (uintmax_t)sizeof(MpmCtx)),
             de_ctx->mpm_unique ? de_ctx->mpm_memory_size / de_ctx->mpm_unique: 0);
 
-        SCLogInfo("max sig id %" PRIu32 ", array size %" PRIu32 "", DetectEngineGetMaxSigId(de_ctx), DetectEngineGetMaxSigId(de_ctx) / 8 + 1);
+        SCLogDebug("max sig id %" PRIu32 ", array size %" PRIu32 "", DetectEngineGetMaxSigId(de_ctx), DetectEngineGetMaxSigId(de_ctx) / 8 + 1);
         SCLogDebug("signature group heads: unique %" PRIu32 ", copies %" PRIu32 ".", de_ctx->gh_unique, de_ctx->gh_reuse);
         SCLogDebug("MPM instances: %" PRIu32 " unique, copies %" PRIu32 " (none %" PRIu32 ").",
                 de_ctx->mpm_unique, de_ctx->mpm_reuse, de_ctx->mpm_none);
diff --git a/src/flow.c b/src/flow.c
index 9f09862003..9437dd39e5 100644
--- a/src/flow.c
+++ b/src/flow.c
@@ -814,8 +814,7 @@ void FlowHandlePacket (ThreadVars *tv, Packet *p)
  *  \warning Not thread safe */
 void FlowInitConfig(char quiet)
 {
-    if (quiet == FALSE)
-        SCLogInfo("initializing flow engine...");
+    SCLogDebug("initializing flow engine...");
 
     memset(&flow_config,  0, sizeof(flow_config));
     SC_ATOMIC_INIT(flow_memuse);
diff --git a/src/log-httplog.c b/src/log-httplog.c
index e6c6b4a8e1..676a3e67e0 100644
--- a/src/log-httplog.c
+++ b/src/log-httplog.c
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ void LogHttpLogExitPrintStats(ThreadVars *tv, void *data) {
         return;
     }
 
-    SCLogInfo("(%s) HTTP requests %" PRIu32 "", tv->name, aft->uri_cnt);
+    SCLogInfo("HTTP logger logged %" PRIu32 " requests", aft->uri_cnt);
 }
 
 /** \brief Create a new http log LogFileCtx.
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ OutputCtx *LogHttpLogInitCtx(ConfNode *conf)
     output_ctx->data = httplog_ctx;
     output_ctx->DeInit = LogHttpLogDeInitCtx;
 
-    SCLogInfo("HTTP log output initialized");
+    SCLogDebug("HTTP log output initialized");
 
     return output_ctx;
 }
diff --git a/src/source-pcap-file.c b/src/source-pcap-file.c
index fa03a4eb92..2b5eeef339 100644
--- a/src/source-pcap-file.c
+++ b/src/source-pcap-file.c
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ void ReceivePcapFileThreadExitStats(ThreadVars *tv, void *data) {
     SCEnter();
     PcapFileThreadVars *ptv = (PcapFileThreadVars *)data;
 
-    SCLogInfo(" - (%s) Packets %" PRIu32 ", bytes %" PRIu64 ".", tv->name, ptv->pkts, ptv->bytes);
+    SCLogInfo("Pcap-file module read %" PRIu32 " packets, %" PRIu64 " bytes", ptv->pkts, ptv->bytes);
     return;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/stream-tcp.c b/src/stream-tcp.c
index 1bd4093cff..c3d8dfd435 100644
--- a/src/stream-tcp.c
+++ b/src/stream-tcp.c
@@ -3984,7 +3984,7 @@ void StreamTcpExitPrintStats(ThreadVars *tv, void *data)
         return;
     }
 
-    SCLogInfo("(%s) Packets %" PRIu64 "", tv->name, stt->pkts);
+    SCLogInfo("Stream TCP processed %" PRIu64 " TCP packets", stt->pkts);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/suricata.c b/src/suricata.c
index 8a98302efd..a2c2394513 100644
--- a/src/suricata.c
+++ b/src/suricata.c
@@ -481,6 +481,8 @@ void SCPrintBuildInfo(void) {
 
 #ifdef REVISION
     SCLogInfo("This is %s version %s (rev %s)", PROG_NAME, PROG_VER, xstr(REVISION));
+#elif defined RELEASE
+    SCLogInfo("This is %s version %s RELEASE", PROG_NAME, PROG_VER);
 #else
     SCLogInfo("This is %s version %s", PROG_NAME, PROG_VER);
 #endif
@@ -1629,7 +1631,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     int engine_retval = EXIT_SUCCESS;
     while(1) {
         if (suricata_ctl_flags != 0) {
-            SCLogInfo("signal received");
+            SCLogDebug("signal received");
 
             if (suricata_ctl_flags & SURICATA_STOP)  {
                 struct timeval ts_start;
@@ -1638,7 +1640,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                 memset(&ts_start, 0x00, sizeof(ts_start));
                 gettimeofday(&ts_start, NULL);
 
-                SCLogInfo("EngineStop received");
+                SCLogInfo("stopping engine, waiting for outstanding packets");
 
                 /* Stop the engine so it quits after processing the pcap file
                  * but first make sure all packets are processed by all other
diff --git a/src/util-coredump-config.c b/src/util-coredump-config.c
index 6c4fc4be01..5e8d2fa0af 100644
--- a/src/util-coredump-config.c
+++ b/src/util-coredump-config.c
@@ -92,8 +92,9 @@ int32_t CoredumpLoadConfig (void)
         if (prctl (PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 1, 0, 0, 0) == -1) {
             SCLogInfo ("Unable to make this process dumpable.");
             return 0;
+        } else {
+            SCLogDebug ("Process is dumpable.");
         }
-        else SCLogInfo ("Process is dumpable.");
     }
     /* don't clear dumpable flag since this will have other effects;
      * just set dump size to 0 below */
diff --git a/src/util-debug.h b/src/util-debug.h
index 29c2217520..8cf2a4ee9e 100644
--- a/src/util-debug.h
+++ b/src/util-debug.h
@@ -71,7 +71,11 @@ typedef enum {
 } SCLogOPIface;
 
 /* The default log_format, if it is not supplied by the user */
+#ifdef RELEASE
+#define SC_LOG_DEF_LOG_FORMAT "%t - <%d> - "
+#else
 #define SC_LOG_DEF_LOG_FORMAT "[%i] %t - (%f:%l) <%d> (%n) -- "
+#endif
 
 /* The maximum length of the log message */
 #define SC_LOG_MAX_LOG_MSG_LEN 2048
diff --git a/src/util-threshold-config.c b/src/util-threshold-config.c
index abfe0c1efa..23a53080c7 100644
--- a/src/util-threshold-config.c
+++ b/src/util-threshold-config.c
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ int SCThresholdConfInitContext(DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx, FILE *utfd)
     SCThresholdConfParseFile(de_ctx, fd);
     SCThresholdConfDeInitContext(de_ctx, fd);
 
-    SCLogInfo("Global thresholding options defined");
+    SCLogDebug("Global thresholding options defined");
     return 0;
 
 error: