diff --git a/akka-persistence/akka-persistence-hbase/src/main/resources/log4j.properties b/akka-persistence/akka-persistence-hbase/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5763ff8232
--- /dev/null
+++ b/akka-persistence/akka-persistence-hbase/src/main/resources/log4j.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+log4j.rootLogger=ERROR,R
+
+# rolling log file ("system.log
+log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.DailyRollingFileAppender
+log4j.appender.R.DatePattern='.'yyyy-MM-dd-HH
+log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=%5p [%t] %d{ISO8601} %F (line %L) %m%n
+log4j.appender.R.File=target/logs/system.log
diff --git a/config/logback-test.xml b/config/logback-test.xml
index fdb912d463..0671694e3f 100644
--- a/config/logback-test.xml
+++ b/config/logback-test.xml
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@
     </encoder>
   </appender>
   <logger name="se.scalablesolutions" level="DEBUG"/>
+  
+  <logger name="org.mortbay.log" level="ERROR"/>
+  <logger name="org.apache.jasper" level="ERROR"/>
+  
   <root level="DEBUG">
     <appender-ref ref="stdout"/>
   </root>
diff --git a/project/build/AkkaProject.scala b/project/build/AkkaProject.scala
index 82ed509151..eecb4c4bfb 100644
--- a/project/build/AkkaProject.scala
+++ b/project/build/AkkaProject.scala
@@ -563,6 +563,8 @@ class AkkaParentProject(info: ProjectInfo) extends DefaultProject(info) {
         <dependency org="org.apache.hadoop" name="hadoop-test" rev="0.20.2" conf="test">
 	        <exclude module="slf4j-api"/>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-api" rev={SLF4J_VERSION} conf="test">
+        </dependency>
         <dependency org="org.apache.hbase" name="hbase-test" rev="0.20.6" conf="test">
         </dependency>
         <dependency org="log4j" name="log4j" rev="1.2.15" conf="test">
@@ -571,7 +573,13 @@ class AkkaParentProject(info: ProjectInfo) extends DefaultProject(info) {
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
-    override def testOptions = TestFilter((name: String) => name.endsWith("Test")) :: Nil
+    val hbase_test = System.getenv("HBASE_TEST")
+    override def testOptions = { val o = TestFilter((name: String) => name.endsWith("Test")) :: Nil
+                                 if(hbase_test != "true")
+				   o
+				 else
+				   Nil
+			       }
   }
 
   // akka-persistence-voldemort subproject