diff --git a/roles/captiveportal/templates/capture-wsgi.py b/roles/captiveportal/templates/capture-wsgi.py
index d4fd734c2..11ca62b8f 100755
--- a/roles/captiveportal/templates/capture-wsgi.py
+++ b/roles/captiveportal/templates/capture-wsgi.py
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ def is_after204_timeout(ip):
     ts=tstamp(datetime.datetime.now(tzutc()))
     current_ts, last_ts, send204after = timeout_info(ip) 
     if send204after == 0: return False
-    logger.debug("function: is_after204_timeout send204after:{} current: {}".format((send204after,ts,)))
+    logger.debug("function: is_after204_timeout send204after:{} current: {}".format(send204after,ts,))
     if not send204after:
         return False
     if ts - int(send204after) > 0:
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ def application (environ, start_response):
       data = ['{}: {}\n'.format(key, value) for key, value in sorted(environ.items()) ]
       #logger.debug("need the correct ip:{}".format(data))
       ip = environ['REMOTE_ADDR'].strip()
-   cmd="arp -an {}|gawk \'{print $4}\'".format(ip)
+   cmd="arp -an {}|gawk \'{{print $4}}\'".format(ip)
    mac = subprocess.check_output(cmd, shell=True)
    data = []
    data.append("host: {}\n".format(environ['HTTP_HOST']))