, default="actions"
                      , dest="actions_dir"
                      , metavar="ACTIONS_DIR")
+    parser.add_option( "-d", "--debug"
+                     , help="Run in debug mode. This only means logging is "
+                            "more verbose."
+                     , action="store_true"
+                     , dest="debug")
     return parser
  
 def main(argv):
 
     options are the parsed commandline options.
     """
     # We use the default options for now
-    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
+    level = logging.INFO
+    if(options.debug):
+        level = logging.DEBUG
+    logging.basicConfig(level=level)
     log.debug("Initialized logging configuration")