When using `emacsclient -qa' and starting the Emacs daemon automatically, it prints the following (among other lines): Emacs daemon should have started, trying to connect again However, `emacsclient --help' says: -q, --quiet Don't display messages on success Since the above message is printed even when successfully starting the daemon, I think it would make sense to suppress this when using -q/--quiet. Attached is a patch to do this. See also the resolved bug#16117 for a similar case, which inspired this report. (There's bug#51327 too, which is loosely related and should probably be fixed -- somehow -- for Emacs 28.)