diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 35b050f0..3138239e 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2184,6 +2184,7 @@ Hardy Flor <HFlor@web.de>
 
 Harald Milz <hm@seneca.muc.de>
  for his CUTR patch, which was used as a base to implement the SVDRP command EDIT
+ for reporting a bug in parsing the '-l' command line option
 
 Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela@hut.fi>
  for making repeat keys be ignored when waiting for a keypress to cancel an operation
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 8daf803e..6d98bc2b 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -9536,7 +9536,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   cDvbTuner::GetSignalStats() to avoid problems with drivers that don't do this
   (thanks to Helmut Binder).
 
-2020-11-16:
+2020-11-20:
 
 - Fixed multiple recording entries in case a recording is started during the initial
   reading of the video directory (reported by Claus Muus).
@@ -9544,3 +9544,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   (reported by Christoph Haubrich).
 - Fixed a crash in case an error occurs when setting a remote timer.
 - Fixed allocating memory for cImage (reported by Christoph Haubrich).
+- Fixed parsing the '-l' command line option (reported by Harald Milz).
diff --git a/vdr.c b/vdr.c
index 2ff5cfb4..709e2f85 100644
--- a/vdr.c
+++ b/vdr.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  *
  * The project's page is at http://www.tvdr.de
  *
- * $Id: vdr.c 4.33 2020/05/18 16:47:29 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: vdr.c 4.34 2020/11/20 13:49:58 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include <getopt.h>
@@ -422,6 +422,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                           SysLogLevel = l;
                           if (!p)
                              break;
+                          *p = '.';
                           if (isnumber(p + 1)) {
                              int l = atoi(p + 1);
                              if (0 <= l && l <= 7) {