diff --git a/akka-core/src/main/resources/logback.xml b/akka-core/src/main/resources/logback.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 4635396601..0000000000
--- a/akka-core/src/main/resources/logback.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-
-<!-- For assistance related to logback-translator or configuration  -->
-<!-- files in general, please contact the logback user mailing list -->
-<!-- at http://www.qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-user             -->
-<!--                                                                -->
-<!-- For professional support please see                            -->
-<!--    http://www.qos.ch/shop/products/professionalSupport         -->
-<!--                                                                -->
-        <!-- FOR AKKA INTERNAL USE ONLY -->
-<configuration scan="false" debug="false">
-  <appender name="stdout" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
-    <encoder>
-      <pattern>[%4p] [%d{ISO8601}] [%t] %c{1}: %m%n</pattern>
-    </encoder>
-  </appender>
-  <appender name="R" class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.RollingFileAppender">
-    <File>./logs/akka.log</File>
-    <encoder>
-      <pattern>[%4p] [%d{ISO8601}] [%t] %c{1}: %m%n</pattern>
-    </encoder>
-    <rollingPolicy class="ch.qos.logback.core.rolling.TimeBasedRollingPolicy">
-      <fileNamePattern>./logs/akka.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH}</fileNamePattern>
-    </rollingPolicy>
-  </appender>
-  <logger name="se.scalablesolutions" level="DEBUG"/>
-  <root level="INFO">
-    <appender-ref ref="stdout"/>
-    <appender-ref ref="R"/>
-  </root>
-</configuration>
diff --git a/akka-core/src/test/resources/logback-test.xml b/akka-core/src/test/resources/logback-test.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 78eae40ec4..0000000000
--- a/akka-core/src/test/resources/logback-test.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-
-<!-- For assistance related to logback-translator or configuration  -->
-<!-- files in general, please contact the logback user mailing list -->
-<!-- at http://www.qos.ch/mailman/listinfo/logback-user             -->
-<!--                                                                -->
-<!-- For professional support please see                            -->
-<!--    http://www.qos.ch/shop/products/professionalSupport         -->
-<!--                                                                -->
-<configuration scan="false" debug="false">
-  <!-- FOR AKKA INTERNAL USE ONLY -->
-  <appender name="stdout" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
-    <encoder>
-      <pattern>[%4p] [%d{ISO8601}] [%t] %c{1}: %m%n</pattern>
-    </encoder>
-  </appender>
-  <logger name="se.scalablesolutions" level="DEBUG"/>
-  <root level="DEBUG">
-    <appender-ref ref="stdout"/>
-  </root>
-</configuration>
diff --git a/config/logback.xml b/config/logback.xml
index 1ace0bfd8f..3e6ba75548 100644
--- a/config/logback.xml
+++ b/config/logback.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
       <fileNamePattern>./logs/akka.log.%d{yyyy-MM-dd-HH}</fileNamePattern>
     </rollingPolicy>
   </appender>
-  <logger name="se.scalablesolutions" level="DEBUG"/>
+  <logger name="se.scalablesolutions" level="INFO"/>
   <root level="INFO">
     <appender-ref ref="stdout"/>
     <appender-ref ref="R"/>
diff --git a/project/build/AkkaProject.scala b/project/build/AkkaProject.scala
index 4503357db6..0d0a9e00cb 100644
--- a/project/build/AkkaProject.scala
+++ b/project/build/AkkaProject.scala
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ class AkkaParentProject(info: ProjectInfo) extends DefaultProject(info) {
     .filter(!_.getName.contains("scala-library"))
     .map("lib_managed/scala_%s/compile/".format(buildScalaVersion) + _.getName)
     .mkString(" ") +
+    " config/" +
     " scala-library.jar" +
     " dist/akka-core_%s-%s.jar".format(buildScalaVersion, version) +
     " dist/akka-http_%s-%s.jar".format(buildScalaVersion, version) +
@@ -271,10 +272,9 @@ class AkkaParentProject(info: ProjectInfo) extends DefaultProject(info) {
   }
 
   override def mainResources = super.mainResources +++
-                               descendents(info.projectPath / "config", "*") ---
-                               (super.mainResources ** "logback-test.xml")
+          (info.projectPath / "config").descendentsExcept("*", "logback-test.xml")
 
-  override def testResources = super.testResources --- (super.testResources ** "logback-test.xml")
+  override def runClasspath = super.runClasspath +++ "config"
 
   // ------------------------------------------------------------
   // publishing
@@ -730,6 +730,8 @@ class AkkaParentProject(info: ProjectInfo) extends DefaultProject(info) {
 
   // ------------------------------------------------------------
   class AkkaDefaultProject(info: ProjectInfo, val deployPath: Path) extends DefaultProject(info) with DeployProject with OSGiProject {
+    override def runClasspath = super.runClasspath +++ (AkkaParentProject.this.info.projectPath / "config")
+    override def testClasspath = super.testClasspath +++ (AkkaParentProject.this.info.projectPath / "config")
     override def packageDocsJar = this.defaultJarPath("-docs.jar")
     override def packageSrcJar  = this.defaultJarPath("-sources.jar")
   }