diff --git a/templates/docs/monitoring_cron_jobs.html b/templates/docs/monitoring_cron_jobs.html
index e20f8e75..c2051859 100644
--- a/templates/docs/monitoring_cron_jobs.html
+++ b/templates/docs/monitoring_cron_jobs.html
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ increasingly important as you add more checks to your account.</p>
 after the command:</p>
 <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code>$ crontab -e
 <span class="c1"># m h dom mon dow command</span>
-  <span class="m">8</span> <span class="m">6</span> * * * /home/user/backup.sh <span class="o">&amp;&amp;</span> curl -fsS --retry <span class="m">3</span> --output /dev/null PING_URL
+  <span class="m">8</span> <span class="m">6</span> * * * /home/user/backup.sh <span class="o">&amp;&amp;</span> curl -fsS --retry <span class="m">3</span> -o /dev/null PING_URL
 </code></pre></div>
 
 
@@ -73,11 +73,12 @@ there is an error. Feel free to adjust the curl options to suit your needs.</p>
     </tr>
     <tr>
         <th>-s, --silent</th>
-        <td>Silent or quiet mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages.</td>
+        <td>Silent or quiet mode. Use it to hide progress meter,
+            but it also hides error messages.</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
         <th>-S, --show-error</th>
-        <td>When used with -s it makes curl show error message if it fails.</td>
+        <td>Re-enables error messages when -s is used.</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
         <th>--retry &lt;num&gt;</th>
@@ -85,14 +86,14 @@ there is an error. Feel free to adjust the curl options to suit your needs.</p>
             If a transient error is returned when curl tries to perform a
             transfer, it will retry this number of times before  giving  up.
             Setting  the number  to  0  makes curl do no retries
-            (which is the default). Transient error means either: a timeout,
-            an FTP 4xx response code or an HTTP 5xx response code.
+            (which is the default). Transient error is a timeout or an HTTP 5xx
+            response code.
         </td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
-        <th>&gt; /dev/null</th>
+        <th>-o /dev/null</th>
         <td>
-            Redirect curl's stdout to /dev/null (error messages go to stderr,)
+            Redirect curl's stdout to /dev/null (error messages still go to stderr)
         </td>
     </tr>
 </table>
@@ -109,4 +110,4 @@ there is an error. Feel free to adjust the curl options to suit your needs.</p>
 </span>System clock synchronized: yes
               NTP service: active
           RTC in local TZ: no
-</code></pre></div>
+</code></pre></div>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/templates/docs/monitoring_cron_jobs.md b/templates/docs/monitoring_cron_jobs.md
index f1b4b050..7cf3ae18 100644
--- a/templates/docs/monitoring_cron_jobs.md
+++ b/templates/docs/monitoring_cron_jobs.md
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ after the command:
 ```bash
 $ crontab -e
 # m h dom mon dow command
-  8 6 * * * /home/user/backup.sh && curl -fsS --retry 3 --output /dev/null PING_URL
+  8 6 * * * /home/user/backup.sh && curl -fsS --retry 3 -o /dev/null PING_URL
 ```
 
 Now, each time your cron job runs, it will send a HTTP request to the ping URL.
@@ -74,11 +74,12 @@ there is an error. Feel free to adjust the curl options to suit your needs.
     </tr>
     <tr>
         <th>-s, --silent</th>
-        <td>Silent or quiet mode. Don't show progress meter or error messages.</td>
+        <td>Silent or quiet mode. Use it to hide progress meter,
+            but it also hides error messages.</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
         <th>-S, --show-error</th>
-        <td>When used with -s it makes curl show error message if it fails.</td>
+        <td>Re-enables error messages when -s is used.</td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
         <th>--retry &lt;num&gt;</th>
@@ -86,14 +87,14 @@ there is an error. Feel free to adjust the curl options to suit your needs.
             If a transient error is returned when curl tries to perform a
             transfer, it will retry this number of times before  giving  up.
             Setting  the number  to  0  makes curl do no retries
-            (which is the default). Transient error means either: a timeout,
-            an FTP 4xx response code or an HTTP 5xx response code.
+            (which is the default). Transient error is a timeout or an HTTP 5xx
+            response code.
         </td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
-        <th>&gt; /dev/null</th>
+        <th>-o /dev/null</th>
         <td>
-            Redirect curl's stdout to /dev/null (error messages go to stderr,)
+            Redirect curl's stdout to /dev/null (error messages still go to stderr)
         </td>
     </tr>
 </table>
diff --git a/templates/front/snippets/crontab.html b/templates/front/snippets/crontab.html
index 1ea0fcd7..8937fb9b 100644
--- a/templates/front/snippets/crontab.html
+++ b/templates/front/snippets/crontab.html
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 <div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># m h dom mon dow command</span>
-  <span class="m">8</span> <span class="m">6</span> *   *   *   /home/user/backup.sh <span class="o">&amp;&amp;</span> curl -fsS --retry <span class="m">3</span> --output /dev/null {{ ping_url }}
+  <span class="m">8</span> <span class="m">6</span> *   *   *   /home/user/backup.sh <span class="o">&amp;&amp;</span> curl -fsS --retry <span class="m">3</span> -o /dev/null {{ ping_url }}
 </pre></div>
diff --git a/templates/front/snippets/crontab.txt b/templates/front/snippets/crontab.txt
index 84edb987..1db344f6 100644
--- a/templates/front/snippets/crontab.txt
+++ b/templates/front/snippets/crontab.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # m h dom mon dow command
-  8 6 *   *   *   /home/user/backup.sh && curl -fsS --retry 3 --output /dev/null PING_URL
+  8 6 *   *   *   /home/user/backup.sh && curl -fsS --retry 3 -o /dev/null PING_URL