diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 6f6de61d2d78ff5e11df203cfcbb58ac8af7d730..2a7aa1cb7357fa477a4d9b05ca246cb0723ac23a 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ build:
   # instead of calling g++ directly you can also use some build toolkit like make
   # install the necessary build tools when needed
   before_script:
-    - apt update && apt -y install libncurses-dev libmodbus-dev libsqlite3-dev libident-dev
+    - apt update
+    - apt -y install libncurses-dev libmodbus-dev libsqlite3-dev libident-dev
   script:
     - make -C src/
   artifacts:
@@ -31,5 +32,11 @@ test:
     - useradd testuser && chown -R testuser .
     # SETUID on the client, so it can use AUTOAUTH (ident doesn't work on the container)
     - chmod u+s dispense
+    - ls -l dispense
   script:
     - cd tests && su -c './TEST_basic.sh' testuser
+  after_script:
+    - cat tests/rundir/basic/server.log
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+      - tests/rundir/basic/server.log
diff --git a/tests/_common.sh b/tests/_common.sh
index e43a2c8c1611e3558d87f3a6bc2127ae4f9a591d..0f6243027fb92553c89212a9cc5a51f673a33b4f 100644
--- a/tests/_common.sh
+++ b/tests/_common.sh
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ TRY_COMMAND() {
 
 DISPENSE="../dispense -f /dev/null -H localhost -P ${PORT}"
 
-LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.. ../dispsrv -f ${BASEDIR}cfg_server.conf --dont-daemonise > ${BASEDIR}server.log 2>&1 &
+LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.. ../dispsrv -f ${BASEDIR}cfg_server.conf --dont-daemonise -d 2 > ${BASEDIR}server.log 2>&1 &
 server_pid=$!
 
 cleanup() {