diff --git a/dist/src/main/conf/logging.properties b/dist/src/main/conf/logging.properties
index 0bce5936..7c28f01f 100644
--- a/dist/src/main/conf/logging.properties
+++ b/dist/src/main/conf/logging.properties
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 # Recommended logging configuration for Heritrix
 
 # Default global logging level: only WARNINGs or higher from most code..
-.level= WARNING
+.level = WARNING
 # ...and even less from the too-chatty-with-WARNINGs HttpClient library...
 org.apache.commons.httpclient.level = SEVERE
 # ...but INFO for our classes, which reserve FINE/FINER/FINEST for bulk/trivia...
 org.archive.level = INFO
 
 # Basic logging setup; to console (and thus usually heritrix_out.log), all levels
-handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
-java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = ALL
-java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter= org.archive.util.OneLineSimpleLogger
+handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler, java.util.logging.FileHandler
+java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = INFO
+java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.formatter = org.archive.util.OneLineSimpleLogger
+
+java.util.logging.FileHandler.pattern = /tmp/heritrix_out.log
+java.util.logging.FileHandler.formatter = org.archive.util.OneLineSimpleLogger
+
+org.archive.util.UriUtils.level = ALL