diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index c083cced..f2dabc4b 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4254,3 +4254,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Removed the "buffer reserve" in Transfer Mode - it's no longer necessary with
   recent driver/firmware versions.
 - The epg.data file is now written when VDR exits (suggested by Daniel Karsubka).
+- There is now a log message when VDR writes the epg.data file.
diff --git a/epg.c b/epg.c
index 6cdfb77d..40cd3539 100644
--- a/epg.c
+++ b/epg.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Original version (as used in VDR before 1.3.0) written by
  * Robert Schneider <Robert.Schneider@web.de> and Rolf Hakenes <hakenes@hippomi.de>.
  *
- * $Id: epg.c 1.52 2006/01/27 13:42:10 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: epg.c 1.53 2006/01/28 14:45:24 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "epg.h"
@@ -910,6 +910,7 @@ void cSchedules::Cleanup(bool Force)
         ReportEpgBugFixStats(true);
      }
   if (epgDataFileName && now - lastDump > 600) {
+     isyslog("writing EPG data to %s", epgDataFileName);
      cSafeFile f(epgDataFileName);
      if (f.Open()) {
         Dump(f);