diff --git a/tests.log b/tests.log
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7e35f13e4ec9dd120cd7e40c994158ae9b43728b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests.log
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Logging has been setup, loglevel=DEBUGfilename='tests.log' rich_available=True
+We have set up logging from /home/karnada/Sandbox/Projects/mpsd-software-environments/kak.py
+Logging has been setup, loglevel=DEBUGfilename='tests.log' rich_available=True
+We have set up logging from /home/karnada/Sandbox/Projects/mpsd-software-environments/tests.py
diff --git a/tests.py b/tests.py
index d349bace0aff10f854b5c0773bff7c3ba6255c98..9af04be5b94f2f1ab8bfad0f28ee8c4ea7d11e21 100644
--- a/tests.py
+++ b/tests.py
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ mod = importlib.import_module("mpsd-software-environment")
 
 # set loglevel to debug - useful for understanding problems.
 # (if the tests pass, pytest doesn't show any output)
-mod.set_up_logging(loglevel="debug", filename="tests.log")
-logging.debug(f"We have set up logging from {__file__}")
+# mod.set_up_logging(loglevel="debug", filename="tests.log")
+# logging.debug(f"We have set up logging from {__file__}")
 
 
 def create_mock_git_repository(target_directory, create_directory=True):
@@ -316,12 +316,12 @@ def test_install_environment_zlib():
         assert "zlib" in lines
 
 def test_metadata_logging(tmp_path):
-    mod.set_up_logging("WARNING", tmp_path/"test.log")
+    mod.set_up_logging("WARNING", tmp_path/"test-metadata.log")
     key = "important_key"
     value = "important_value"
     mod.log_metadata(key,value)
     expected_log = f"{mod.config_vars['metadata_tag_open']}{key}:{value}{mod.config_vars['metadata_tag_close']}"
-    with open(tmp_path/"test.log", "r") as f:
+    with open(tmp_path/"test-metadata.log", "r") as f:
         assert expected_log in f.read()
 
 def test_interface(tmp_path):