diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 646d036f2..4be1c324e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,23 +1,31 @@
 # What is this?
 
-This repository contains the source code for the Play-by-Mail strategy game [Eressea](http://www.eressea.de/).
+This repository contains the source code for the Play-by-Mail 
+strategy game [Eressea](http://www.eressea.de/).
 
 # Prerequisites
 
-Eressea depends on a number of external libraries. On a recent Debian-based Linux system, this is the apt-get command to install all of them:
+Eressea depends on a number of external libraries. On a recent
+Debian-based Linux system, this is the apt-get command to
+install all of them:
 
-    sudo apt-get install git cmake gcc make libxml2-dev liblua5.2-dev libtolua-dev libncurses5-dev libsqlite3-dev luarocks
+    sudo apt-get install git cmake gcc make luarocks libxml2-dev \
+        liblua5.2-dev libtolua-dev libncurses5-dev libsqlite3-dev
 
 # How to check out and build the Eressea server
 
-This repository relies heavily on the use of submodules, and it pulls in most of the code from those. The build system being used is cmake, which can create Makefiles on Unix, or Visual Studio project files on Windows. Here's how you clone and build the source on Ubuntu:
+This repository relies heavily on the use of submodules, and it pulls in
+most of the code from those. The build system being used is cmake, which
+can create Makefiles on Unix, or Visual Studio project files on Windows.
+Here's how you clone and build the source on Linux or macOS:
 
-    git clone --recursive git://github.com/eressea/server.git
-    cd server
-    ./configure
-    ./s/build
+    git clone --recursive git://github.com/eressea/server.git source
+    cd source
+    git submodule update --init
+    s/build
 
-If you got this far and all went well, you have built a server (it is linked from the `game` subdirectory), and it will have passed some basic functionality tests.
+If you got this far and all went well, you have built the server, and
+it will have passed some basic functionality tests.
 
 * [![Static Analysis](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/6742/badge.svg?flat=1)](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/6742/)
 * [![Build Status](https://api.travis-ci.org/eressea/server.svg?branch=develop)](https://travis-ci.org/eressea/server)
diff --git a/process/compress.py b/process/compress.py
index 204d580d7..0066c232f 100755
--- a/process/compress.py
+++ b/process/compress.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ template="""#!/bin/bash
 
 addr=%(email)s
 [ $# -ge 1 ] && addr=$1
-[ -z $addr ] || send-%(compression)s-report $addr '%(gamename)s Report #%(turn)s' %(files)s
+[ -z $addr ] || $ERESSEA/server/bin/send-%(compression)s-report $addr '%(gamename)s Report #%(turn)s' %(files)s
 """
 
 turn = argv[1]
diff --git a/process/compress.sh b/process/compress.sh
index 21ac828ef..c4343d95e 100755
--- a/process/compress.sh
+++ b/process/compress.sh
@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ if [ -z "$ERESSEA" ]; then
   exit 2
 fi
 
+BINDIR="$ERESSEA/server/bin"
+
 GAME="$ERESSEA/game-$1"
-GAME_NAME=$(grep -w name "$GAME/eressea.ini" | sed 's/.*=\s*//')
+GAME_NAME=$("$BINDIR/inifile" "$GAME/eressea.ini" get game:name)
 
 TURN=$2
 if [ -z "$TURN" ]
@@ -20,6 +22,6 @@ if [ ! -d "$GAME/reports" ]; then
 fi
 
 cd "$GAME/reports" || exit
-"$ERESSEA/server/bin/compress.py" "$TURN" "$GAME_NAME"
+"$BINDIR/compress.py" "$TURN" "$GAME_NAME"
 cd - || exit
 
diff --git a/process/cron/orders.cron b/process/cron/orders.cron
index 980f11ee2..dc060a5e1 100755
--- a/process/cron/orders.cron
+++ b/process/cron/orders.cron
@@ -5,11 +5,18 @@
 # this here script to make a non-blocking syntax check and reject or
 # accept the order file.
 
-if [ "yes" != "$CONFIRM" ] ; then
+if [ "no" == "$CONFIRM" ] ; then
   exit
 fi
 
+if [ -z "$ERESSEA" ] ; then
+  ERESSEA="$HOME/eressea"
+  echo "The ERESSEA environment variable is not set. Assuming $ERESSEA."
+fi
+
+cd $ERESSEA
+
 for GAME in $*
 do
-  $HOME/eressea/orders-php/check-orders.sh $GAME
+  orders-php/check-orders.sh $GAME
 done