diff --git a/include/profiles b/include/profiles
index f8935ece..ad5e6b07 100644
--- a/include/profiles
+++ b/include/profiles
@@ -35,10 +35,8 @@
 
         # Show deprecation message for old config entries
         FOUND=0
-        #DATA=$(egrep "^config:" ${PROFILE} | od --address-radix=none -t a | sed 's/ /!space!/g')
-        #if ! IsEmpty "${DATA}"; then FOUND=1; fi
-        # Items such as 'apache:'
-        DATA=$(egrep "^[a-z-]{1,}:" ${PROFILE} | od --address-radix=none -t a | sed 's/ /!space!/g')
+        # Items such as 'config:' and 'apache:'
+        DATA=$(egrep "^[a-z-]{1,}:" ${PROFILE} | od -An -ta | sed 's/ /!space!/g')  # od -An (no file offset), -ta (named character, to be on safe side)
         if ! IsEmpty "${DATA}"; then FOUND=1; fi
 
         if [ ${FOUND} -eq 1 ]; then
@@ -49,7 +47,7 @@
         fi
 
         # Security check for unexpected and possibly harmful escape characters
-        DATA=$(grep -v '^$\|^ \|^#\|^config:'  ${PROFILE} | tr -d '[:alnum:]/\[\]\(\)\-_\|,\.:;= \n\r' | od --address-radix=none -t a | sed 's/ /!space!/g')
+        DATA=$(grep -v '^$\|^ \|^#\|^config:'  ${PROFILE} | tr -d '[:alnum:]/\[\]\(\)\-_\|,\.:;= \n\r' | od -An -ta | sed 's/ /!space!/g')
         if ! IsEmpty "${DATA}"; then
             DisplayWarning "Your profile '${PROFILE}' contains unexpected characters. See the log file for more information."
             LogText "Found unexpected or possibly harmful characters in the profile. See output below."