diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a34f969..0b6a64c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,16 +26,18 @@ deployment very soon.
 
 ### Changed
 
-- Ensure all telegraf metrics are timestamped in microseconds.
-  Because output to telegraf is buffered, we can't rely on telegraf doing the
-  timestamping (multiple samples get timestamped with the same or very similar
-  times), so we add a timestamp to every metric line as soon as we see it.
+- Ensure all telegraf metrics are timestamped in microseconds. Because output to
+  telegraf is buffered, we can't rely on telegraf doing the timestamping
+  (multiple samples get timestamped with the same or very similar times), so we
+  add a timestamp to every metric line as soon as we see it.
 - `ntpmon_info` metric in telegraf mode split into
   `ntpmon_resident_set_size_bytes`, `ntpmon_virtual_memory_size_bytes`, and
   `ntpmon_uptime_seconds` in prometheus mode, with tags only on
   `ntpmon_uptime_seconds`, to tidy metric names and reduce tag cardinality when
   used with prometheus.  These retain their existing names in telegraf mode.
-
+- Make messages from log file tailer tidier and more consistent.
+- Correctly flag /etc/default/ntpmon as a configuration file in the Debian
+  package.
 
 ## [3.0.7] - 2024-01-05
 
diff --git a/debian/conffiles b/debian/conffiles
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..97d6788
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/conffiles
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/etc/default/ntpmon
diff --git a/src/tailer.py b/src/tailer.py
index 2e88ab0..f02607a 100755
--- a/src/tailer.py
+++ b/src/tailer.py
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ def open(self) -> None:
             stat = os.stat(self.file.fileno())
             self.st_ino = stat.st_ino
             self.st_dev = stat.st_dev
+            print(f"{self.filename} opened, reading from pos {self.pos}", file=sys.stderr)
         except OSError:
             self.clear()
         finally:
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ def readlines(self) -> List[str]:
                 return None
             elif pos < self.pos:
                 # file has been truncated; reset to beginning and read all lines
-                print(f"Truncated: {pos=} {self.pos=}", file=sys.stderr)
+                print(f"{self.filename} truncated, resetting to beginning", file=sys.stderr)
                 self.file.seek(0, os.SEEK_SET)
             else:
                 # Even if we were in the right place already, we need to set our
@@ -85,12 +86,12 @@ def tail(self) -> List[str]:
         reopen = False
         if stat is None:
             # file deleted - read the rest of it (if any) and reopen when available
-            print("Deleted file", file=sys.stderr)
+            print(f"{self.filename} deleted, reopening", file=sys.stderr)
             reopen = True
         elif stat.st_ino != self.st_ino or stat.st_dev != self.st_dev:
             # It's a different file; read the rest of the open one, then open the
             # new one.
-            print(f"Different file: {stat.st_ino=} {self.st_ino=} {stat.st_dev=} {self.st_dev=}", file=sys.stderr)
+            print(f"{self.filename} replaced ({self.st_dev},{self.st_ino} -> {stat.st_dev},{stat.st_ino}), reopening", file=sys.stderr)
             reopen = True
         else:
             # Same file, just read any lines