diff --git a/bootscripts/contrib/lsb-v3/ChangeLog b/bootscripts/contrib/lsb-v3/ChangeLog
index bb79c63c4..dc2fe95d5 100644
--- a/bootscripts/contrib/lsb-v3/ChangeLog
+++ b/bootscripts/contrib/lsb-v3/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 ChangeLog
+20080908 - [dj] * Corrected echo command in rc script - Thanks to 
+                  Michael Tremer at IPFire.
 
 20080907 - [dj] * Use new initd-tools package to activate scripts.
                 * $syslog and modules services cannot be a hard dependencies
diff --git a/bootscripts/contrib/lsb-v3/init.d/rc b/bootscripts/contrib/lsb-v3/init.d/rc
index 75ddf8951..f3108d03d 100644
--- a/bootscripts/contrib/lsb-v3/init.d/rc
+++ b/bootscripts/contrib/lsb-v3/init.d/rc
@@ -60,8 +60,8 @@ fi
 
 # Verify that the directory exists
 if [ ! -d "${RC_BASE}/rc${runlevel}.d" ]; then
-    echo -n "${WARNING}${RC_BASE}/rc${runlevel}.d does not exist."
-    echo "${NORMAL}"
+    echo -n -e "${WARNING}${RC_BASE}/rc${runlevel}.d does not exist."
+    echo -e "${NORMAL}"
     exit 1
 fi