diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index f32ba4b0d..ff139fd09 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 
+*) 2003-11-21 (2.0.0-rc2 - 2.0.0-rc3)
+
+- Juergen Sawinski: fixed network.init and back-ticks
+
 *) 2003-11-20 (2.0.0-rc2 - 2.0.0-rc3)
 
  - integrated rock-net (0.0.3)
diff --git a/package/base/sysfiles/network.init b/package/base/sysfiles/network.init
index 5634da0a7..5fdb06c3c 100644
--- a/package/base/sysfiles/network.init
+++ b/package/base/sysfiles/network.init
@@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ main_begin
 
     block_begin(start, `Setting up network devices.')
 	[ -x /etc/network/getprofile ] && /etc/network/getprofile
-	profile="`cat /etc/network/profile`"
+	profile="$(cat /etc/network/profile)"
 	profile={profile:-default}
 	check(`/etc/network/rocknet $profile auto up')
     block_end
 
     block_begin(stop, `Shutting down network devices.')
-	profile="`cat /etc/network/profile`"
+	profile="$(cat /etc/network/profile)"
 	profile={profile:-default}
 	check(`/etc/network/rocknet $profile auto down')
     block_end