diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 1f0c26ab8..670bedf18 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
  - Daniel Pischl: Gaim
  - Sebastian Jaenicke: fxed nessus init script
  - removed /tmp mounting from system.init - fails with real filesystem
+ - relaced some $( cd foo/bar ; ls ) with a direct $( ls foo/bar/ )
 
 *) 2003-08-18 (2.0.0-camp - 2.0.0-rc1)
 
diff --git a/package/base/sysfiles/stone_mod_runlevel.sh b/package/base/sysfiles/stone_mod_runlevel.sh
index 75877fa4b..8778c7c85 100644
--- a/package/base/sysfiles/stone_mod_runlevel.sh
+++ b/package/base/sysfiles/stone_mod_runlevel.sh
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ main() {
 		cmd="$cmd item to change the priority or runlevels'"
 
 		x=`mktemp`
-		for srv in $( cd /etc/rc.d/init.d ; ls ; )
+		for srv in $( ls /etc/rc.d/init.d/ )
 		do
 			[ -f /etc/rc.d/init.d/$srv ] || continue
 
diff --git a/scripts/Build-Target b/scripts/Build-Target
index 09e1809cc..4c4972173 100755
--- a/scripts/Build-Target
+++ b/scripts/Build-Target
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ fi
 			errors=1
 		fi
 	done
-	for file in `cd build/$ROCKCFG_ID/pkgs/; ls` ; do
+	for file in $( ls build/$ROCKCFG_ID/pkgs/ ) ; do
 		x="$file"
 		[ $ROCKCFG_CREATE_GEM = 0 ] || x=${x%.gem}
 		[ $ROCKCFG_CREATE_TARBZ2 = 0 ] || x=${x%.tar.bz2}
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ fi
 		fi
 	done
 	for dir in build/$ROCKCFG_ID/root/var/adm/{cache,cksums,dependencies,descs,flists,md5sums,packages} ; do
-		for file in `cd $dir; ls` ; do
+		for file in $( ls $dir ) ; do
 			if [ $ROCKCFG_PKGFILE_VER = 1 ] ; then
 				x="$file-"
 			else 
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ fi
 			fi
 		done
 	done
-	for file in `cd build/$ROCKCFG_ID/root/var/adm/logs/; ls` ; do
+	for file in $( ls build/$ROCKCFG_ID/root/var/adm/logs/ ) ; do
 			x="`echo $file | sed -e 's/^.-//' -e 's/\.log//' -e 's/\.err//' -e s'/\.out//'`"
 			if [ $ROCKCFG_PKGFILE_VER = 1 ] ; then
 				x=$x-