diff --git a/stopYACY.sh b/stopYACY.sh
index e57f030a6..2e0000ed9 100755
--- a/stopYACY.sh
+++ b/stopYACY.sh
@@ -22,13 +22,15 @@ fi
 
 (bin/apicall.sh "Steering.html?shutdown=true" > /dev/null && \
 echo "Please wait until the YaCy daemon process terminates [wget]" && \
-echo "You can monitor this with 'tail -f $YACY_DATA_PATH/LOG/yacy00.log' and 'fuser $YACY_DATA_PATH/LOG/yacy00.log'") || \
+echo "You can monitor this with 'tail -F $YACY_DATA_PATH/LOG/yacy00.log' or 'fuser $YACY_DATA_PATH/LOG/yacy00.log'") || \
 exit $?
 
 # wait until the yacy.running file disappears which means that YaCy has terminated
 # If you don't want to wait, just run this concurrently
+
+echo "WAITING FOR STOP"
 while [ -f "$YACY_DATA_PATH/yacy.running" ]
 do
-	echo "WAITING"
+	echo -n "."
 sleep 1
 done