diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 373c96b8..175c77c1 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1422,6 +1422,8 @@ Udo Richter <udo_richter@gmx.de>
  for providing a shorter version of the 'sed' expression for extracting APIVERSION
  for fixing a bug in handling the "Power" key in case a recording is going on and
  no plugin is active
+ for suggesting to add 'eval' to the $VDRCMD call in 'runvdr' to avoid problems with
+ quoting
 
 Sven Kreiensen <svenk@kammer.uni-hannover.de>
  for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.terr' up to date
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index e3d228a9..8c8fc954 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4694,3 +4694,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Adjusted the 'runvdr' script so that the user can fill in the functions to
   detect, load and unload the necessary driver modules (thanks to M. Kiesel for
   reporting that it still used DVBDIR).
+- Added 'eval' to the $VDRCMD call in 'runvdr' to avoid problems with quoting
+  (suggested by Udo Richter).
diff --git a/runvdr b/runvdr
index 942b8f3c..701c94ca 100755
--- a/runvdr
+++ b/runvdr
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 # See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
 # how to reach the author.
 #
-# $Id: runvdr 1.17 2006/05/01 13:33:31 kls Exp $
+# $Id: runvdr 1.18 2006/05/01 14:51:00 kls Exp $
 
 VDRPRG="./vdr"
 VDRCMD="$VDRPRG -w 60 $*"
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ if ! DriverLoaded; then
    fi
 
 while (true) do
-      $VDRCMD
+      eval "$VDRCMD"
       if test $? -eq 0 -o $? -eq 2; then exit; fi
       echo "`date` reloading DVB driver"
       $KILL $VDRPRG