diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index b435b045..95e86899 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ Simon Dean <linux-dvb@sickhack.com>
 
 Dimitrios Dimitrakos <mail@dimitrios.de>
  for translating OSD texts to the Greek language
+ for fixing handling the LOG_LOCALn parameters in the -l option
 
 Marcus Kuba <marcus@kuba4u.de>
  for reporting a bug in the unit of the "SVDRP timeout" setup parameter
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 427c5273..dd72a143 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1935,3 +1935,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Added/improved Swedish language texts (thanks to Jan Ekholm).
 - Fixed the description of the "Scroll pages" OSD setup parameter ('yes' and 'no'
   were mixed up).
+- Fixed handling the LOG_LOCALn parameters in the -l option (thanks to Dimitrios
+  Dimitrakos).
diff --git a/vdr.c b/vdr.c
index 44ed58f0..87550ded 100644
--- a/vdr.c
+++ b/vdr.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
  *
  * The project's page is at http://www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr
  *
- * $Id: vdr.c 1.140 2003/01/06 11:14:50 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: vdr.c 1.141 2003/01/26 11:56:31 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include <getopt.h>
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
                             if (!p)
                                break;
                             if (isnumber(p + 1)) {
-                               int l = atoi(optarg);
+                               int l = atoi(p + 1);
                                if (0 <= l && l <= 7) {
                                   int targets[] = { LOG_LOCAL0, LOG_LOCAL1, LOG_LOCAL2, LOG_LOCAL3, LOG_LOCAL4, LOG_LOCAL5, LOG_LOCAL6, LOG_LOCAL7 };
                                   SysLogTarget = targets[l];