@@ -1944,7 +1944,6 @@ def main():

         if cmd.has_key("cmd"):

             commands[cmd["cmd"]] = cmd

-    default_verbosity = Config().verbosity

     optparser = OptionParser(option_class=OptionAll, formatter=MyHelpFormatter())

     #optparser.disable_interspersed_args()

@@ -1958,7 +1957,6 @@ def main():

     optparser.set_defaults(encoding = preferred_encoding)

     optparser.set_defaults(config = config_file)

-    optparser.set_defaults(verbosity = default_verbosity)

     optparser.add_option(      "--configure", dest="run_configure", action="store_true", help="Invoke interactive (re)configuration tool. Optionally use as '--configure s3://some-bucket' to test access to a specific bucket instead of attempting to list them all.")

     optparser.add_option("-c", "--config", dest="config", metavar="FILE", help="Config file name. Defaults to %default")

@@ -2068,7 +2066,7 @@ def main():

     ## Some mucking with logging levels to enable

     ## debugging/verbose output for config file parser on request

-    logging.basicConfig(level=options.verbosity,

+    logging.basicConfig(level=options.verbosity or Config().verbosity,

                         format='%(levelname)s: %(message)s',

                         stream = sys.stderr)

@@ -2100,9 +2098,8 @@ def main():

             error(u"Consider using --configure parameter to create one.")

             sys.exit(1)

-    ## And again some logging level adjustments

-    ## according to configfile and command line parameters

-    if options.verbosity != default_verbosity:

+    # allow commandline verbosity config to override config file

+    if options.verbosity is not None:

         cfg.verbosity = options.verbosity

     logging.root.setLevel(cfg.verbosity)