diff --git a/bin/common-functions.sh b/bin/common-functions.sh
index 6d4e71dfc1413d6684bbe98b75583977603a237f..1b876f200fa17e0ee3a3c46182ecc63da39a5549 100755
--- a/bin/common-functions.sh
+++ b/bin/common-functions.sh
@@ -91,20 +91,14 @@ if [ "${0:0:5}" != "/tmp/" ] ; then
 	chmod +x $TTT
 	echo "===================================================================================="
 	echo
-	echo "$(date -u) - running $0 (for job $WHOAREWE) on $(hostname) now."
+	echo "$(date -u) - running $0 (for job $WHOAREWE) on $(hostname), called using \"$@\" as arguments."
+	echo "$(date -u) - actually running \"$(basename $0)\" (md5sum $(md5sum $0|cut -d ' ' -f1)) as \"$TTT\""
 	echo
-	echo "To learn to understand this, git clone https://salsa.debian.org/qa/jenkins.debian.net.git"
-	echo "and then have a look at the files README, INSTALL, CONTRIBUTING and maybe TODO."
+	echo "To learn to understand this, git clone https://salsa.debian.org/qa/jenkins.debian.net.git and then have a look at the files README, INSTALL, CONTRIBUTING and maybe TODO."
 	echo
-	echo "This invocation of this script, which is located in bin/$(basename $0),"
-	echo "has been called using \"$@\" as arguments."
-	echo
-	echo "Please send feedback about jenkins to qa-jenkins-dev@lists.alioth.debian.org,"
-	echo "or as a bug against the 'jenkins.debian.org' pseudo-package,"
-	echo "feedback about specific job results should go to their respective lists and/or the BTS."
+	echo "Please send feedback about jenkins to qa-jenkins-dev@lists.alioth.debian.org, or as a bug against the 'jenkins.debian.org' pseudo-package, feedback about specific job results should go to their respective lists and/or the BTS."
 	echo
 	echo "===================================================================================="
-	echo "$(date -u) - start running \"$0\" (md5sum $(md5sum $0|cut -d ' ' -f1)) as \"$TTT\" on $(hostname)."
 	echo
 	# this is the "hack": call ourself as a copy in /tmp again
 	$TTT "$@"
diff --git a/bin/reproducible_openwrt.sh b/bin/reproducible_openwrt.sh
index 6cf61792aef1c53997f5aa7b31ca66484304b79a..416890a2cb4a75344cb10d223292a8cae731ca68 100755
--- a/bin/reproducible_openwrt.sh
+++ b/bin/reproducible_openwrt.sh
@@ -450,8 +450,6 @@ build_two_times() {
 }
 
 
-
-echo "$0 got called with '$*'"
 # this script is called from positions
 # * it's called from the reproducible_wrapper when running on the master
 # * it's called from reproducible_opewnrt_common when doing remote builds
@@ -467,7 +465,7 @@ case $1 in
 			node_save_logs |\
 			node_cleanup_tmpdirs) 	# this is the allowed list
 						echo "####"
-						echo "#### $1"
+						echo "#### $1 $@"
 						echo "####"
 						;;
 			*)