diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 5580087d..cad397bb 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ fail2ban (0.8.10-2) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * debian/fail2ban.init:
     - fixed handling of the return code from do_start/do_stop
+    - status calls would dump all output to /dev/null
 
  -- Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com>  Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:56:01 -0400
 
diff --git a/debian/fail2ban.init b/debian/fail2ban.init
index 97f767c6..98e7216a 100755
--- a/debian/fail2ban.init
+++ b/debian/fail2ban.init
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ do_start()
 #
 do_status()
 {
-	$DAEMON ping > /dev/null
+	$DAEMON ping > /dev/null 2>&1
 	return $?
 }
 
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ do_stop()
 	#	1 if daemon was already stopped
 	#	2 if daemon could not be stopped
 	#	other if a failure occurred
-	$DAEMON status > /dev/null || return 1
+	$DAEMON status > /dev/null 2>&1 || return 1
 	$DAEMON stop > /dev/null || return 2
 
 	# now we need actually to wait a bit since it might take time