diff --git a/startYACY.sh b/startYACY.sh
index 9b5e86d27..4561fde80 100755
--- a/startYACY.sh
+++ b/startYACY.sh
@@ -1,36 +1,26 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-if [ `id -u` -eq 0 ]
+JAVA="`which java`"
+LOGFILE="yacy.log"
+if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]
 then
 	echo
 	echo "For security reasons you should not run this script as root!"
 	echo
 	exit 1
-elif [ ! -x "`which java`" ]
+elif [ ! -x "$JAVA" ]
 then
 	echo "The java command is not executable."
 	echo "Either you have not installed java or it is not in your PATH"
-	#echo "Has this script been invoked by CRON? Then use the -c option."
+	#Cron supports setting the path in 
+	#echo "Has this script been invoked by CRON?"
+	#echo "if so, please set PATH in the crontab, or set the correct path in the variable in this script."
 	exit 1
 fi
-	
-#-c to be imlemented.
-#Possible locations for setting of PATH
-
-#sh, ksh, bash, zsh
-#. ~/.profile
-#bash
-#. ~/.bash_profile
-#csh, tcsh
-#. ~/.login
-#sh, ksh, bash, zsh
-#. /etc/profile
-#csh, tcsh
-#. /etc/csh.login
 
 #startup YaCy
-cd `dirname $0`
+cd "`dirname $0`"
 
-options=$(getopt -n YaCy -o d,l,p -- $@)
+options="`getopt -n YaCy -o d,l,p -- $@`"
 if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
 	exit 1;
 fi
@@ -43,7 +33,7 @@ DEBUG=0
 PRINTONLY=0
 for option in $options;do
 	if [ $isparameter -ne 1 ];then #option
-		if [ x$option = "x-l" ];then
+		if [ "$option" = "-l" ];then
 			LOGGING=1
 			if [ $DEBUG -eq 1 ];then
 				echo "can not combine -l and -d"
@@ -68,13 +58,13 @@ for option in $options;do
 	fi #parameter or option?
 done
 
-#echo $options;exit 0 #debug for getopts
+#echo $options;exit 0 #DEBUG for getopts
 
 #get javastart args
 java_args=""
 if [ -f DATA/SETTINGS/httpProxy.conf ]
 then
-	for i in $(grep javastart DATA/SETTINGS/httpProxy.conf);do 
+	for i in `grep javastart DATA/SETTINGS/httpProxy.conf`;do 
 		i="${i#javastart_*=}";
 		JAVA_ARGS="-$i $JAVA_ARGS";
 	done
@@ -82,12 +72,6 @@ fi
 
 # generating the proper classpath
 CLASSPATH=""
-#prefix=$(dirname $0);
-#if [ x$prefix = "x." ];then
-#	prefix="";
-#else
-#	prefix="$prefix/"
-#fi
 for N in lib/*.jar; do CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH$N:"; done	
 for N in libx/*.jar; do CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH$N:"; done
 CLASSPATH="classes:.:$CLASSPATH"
@@ -96,30 +80,22 @@ CLASSPATH="classes:.:$CLASSPATH"
 cmdline="";
 if [ $DEBUG -eq 1 ] #debug
 then
-	if [ $PRINTONLY -eq 1 ];then
-		echo java $JAVA_ARGS -Djava.awt.headless=true -classpath $CLASSPATH yacy
-	else
-		java $JAVA_ARGS -Djava.awt.headless=true -classpath $CLASSPATH yacy
-	fi
+	cmdline="$JAVA $JAVA_ARGS -Djava.awt.headless=true -classpath $CLASSPATH yacy"
 elif [ $LOGGING -eq 1 ];then #logging
-	if [ $PRINTONLY -eq 1 ];then
-		echo "java $JAVA_ARGS -Djava.awt.headless=true -classpath $CLASSPATH yacy >> yacy.log"
-	else
-		nohup java $JAVA_ARGS -Djava.awt.headless=true -classpath $CLASSPATH yacy >> yacy.log &
-	fi
+	cmdline="$JAVA $JAVA_ARGS -Djava.awt.headless=true -classpath $CLASSPATH yacy >> yacy.log &"
+else
+	cmdline="$JAVA $JAVA_ARGS -Djava.awt.headless=true -classpath $CLASSPATH yacy > /dev/null &"
+fi
+if [ $PRINTONLY -eq 1 ];then
+	echo $cmdline
 else
-	if [ $PRINTONLY -eq 1 ];then
-		echo "java $JAVA_ARGS -Djava.awt.headless=true -classpath $CLASSPATH yacy > /dev/null"
-	else
-		nohup java $JAVA_ARGS -Djava.awt.headless=true -classpath $CLASSPATH yacy > /dev/null &
-		#nohup java -Xms160m -Xmx160m -classpath $CLASSPATH yacy > /dev/null &
-		echo "****************** YaCy Web Crawler/Indexer & Search Engine *******************"
-		echo "**** (C) by Michael Peter Christen, usage granted under the GPL Version 2  ****"
-		echo "**** USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Project home and releases: http://yacy.net/yacy ****"
-		echo "**  LOG of       YaCy: DATA/LOG/yacy00.log (and yacy<xx>.log)                **"
-		echo "**  STOP         YaCy: execute stopYACY.sh and wait some seconds             **"
-		echo "**  GET HELP for YaCy: see www.yacy-websearch.net/wiki and www.yacy-forum.de **"
-		echo "*******************************************************************************"
-		echo " >> YaCy started as daemon process. Administration at http://localhost:8080 <<"
-	fi
+	echo "****************** YaCy Web Crawler/Indexer & Search Engine *******************"
+	echo "**** (C) by Michael Peter Christen, usage granted under the GPL Version 2  ****"
+	echo "**** USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Project home and releases: http://yacy.net/yacy ****"
+	echo "**  LOG of       YaCy: DATA/LOG/yacy00.log (and yacy<xx>.log)                **"
+	echo "**  STOP         YaCy: execute stopYACY.sh and wait some seconds             **"
+	echo "**  GET HELP for YaCy: see www.yacy-websearch.net/wiki and www.yacy-forum.de **"
+	echo "*******************************************************************************"
+	echo " >> YaCy started as daemon process. Administration at http://localhost:8080 << "
+	eval $cmdline
 fi