diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index ebec7985..15c62160 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1817,3 +1817,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 
 - Fixed missing initialization of 'number' in cChannel (thanks to Martin Hammerschmid
   for reporting this one).
+- Fixed a misplaced ')' in the fix about the stale lock files (thanks again to
+  Oliver Endriss for pointing this out - it was my fault).
diff --git a/tools.c b/tools.c
index c34a6217..ff462ba8 100644
--- a/tools.c
+++ b/tools.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: tools.c 1.75 2002/11/24 16:04:57 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: tools.c 1.76 2002/11/24 20:17:31 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "tools.h"
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ bool cLockFile::Lock(int WaitSeconds)
            if (errno == EEXIST) {
               struct stat fs;
               if (stat(fileName, &fs) == 0) {
-                 if (abs(time(NULL)) - fs.st_mtime > LOCKFILESTALETIME) {
+                 if (abs(time(NULL) - fs.st_mtime) > LOCKFILESTALETIME) {
                     esyslog("ERROR: removing stale lock file '%s'", fileName);
                     if (remove(fileName) < 0) {
                        LOG_ERROR_STR(fileName);