diff --git a/data/Objects365.yaml b/data/Objects365.yaml
index 82b42a120d40..114bee2b159c 100644
--- a/data/Objects365.yaml
+++ b/data/Objects365.yaml
@@ -61,9 +61,9 @@ names: ['Person', 'Sneakers', 'Chair', 'Other Shoes', 'Hat', 'Car', 'Lamp', 'Gla
 # Download script/URL (optional) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 download: |
   from tqdm import tqdm
-  
+
   from utils.general import Path, check_requirements, download, np, xyxy2xywhn
-  
+
   check_requirements(('pycocotools>=2.0',))
   from pycocotools.coco import COCO
 
diff --git a/utils/general.py b/utils/general.py
index 65dd9326797e..5316f504871a 100755
--- a/utils/general.py
+++ b/utils/general.py
@@ -82,11 +82,17 @@ def set_logging(name=None, verbose=VERBOSE):
         for h in logging.root.handlers:
             logging.root.removeHandler(h)  # remove all handlers associated with the root logger object
     rank = int(os.getenv('RANK', -1))  # rank in world for Multi-GPU trainings
-    logging.basicConfig(format="%(message)s", level=logging.INFO if (verbose and rank in (-1, 0)) else logging.WARNING)
-    return logging.getLogger(name)
+    level = logging.INFO if (verbose and rank in (-1, 0)) else logging.WARNING
+    log = logging.getLogger(name)
+    log.setLevel(level)
+    handler = logging.StreamHandler()
+    handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter("%(message)s"))
+    handler.setLevel(level)
+    log.addHandler(handler)
 
 
-LOGGER = set_logging('yolov5')  # define globally (used in train.py, val.py, detect.py, etc.)
+set_logging()  # run before defining LOGGER
+LOGGER = logging.getLogger("yolov5")  # define globally (used in train.py, val.py, detect.py, etc.)
 
 
 def user_config_dir(dir='Ultralytics', env_var='YOLOV5_CONFIG_DIR'):