diff --git a/doc/Installation/Installation-(Debian-Ubuntu).md b/doc/Installation/Installation-(Debian-Ubuntu).md
index 8fc6f9dc8c..d130c862b7 100644
--- a/doc/Installation/Installation-(Debian-Ubuntu).md
+++ b/doc/Installation/Installation-(Debian-Ubuntu).md
@@ -154,13 +154,13 @@ Discover localhost and poll it for the first time:
 
     php discovery.php -h all && php poller.php -h all
 
-LibreNMS uses Job Snijders' [poller-wrapper.py][1].  By default, the cron job runs `poller-wrapper.py` with 16 threads.  The current recommendation is to use 4 threads per core as a rule of thumb.  If the thread count needs to be changed, you can do so by editing `librenms.cron` before copying (or by editing `/etc/cron.d/librenms` if you've already copied the cron file).  Just add a number after `poller-wrapper.py`, as in the example below:
+LibreNMS uses Job Snijders' [poller-wrapper.py][1].  By default, the cron job runs `poller-wrapper.py` with 16 threads.  The current recommendation is to use 4 threads per core as a rule of thumb.  If the thread count needs to be changed, you can do so by editing the cron file (`/etc/cron.d/librenms`).  Just add a number after `poller-wrapper.py`, as in the example below:
 
     /opt/librenms/poller-wrapper.py 12 >> /dev/null 2>&1
 
 Create the cronjob
 
-    ln -s $PWD/librenms.cron /etc/cron.d/librenms
+    cp librenms.cron /etc/cron.d/librenms
 
 ### Daily Updates ###
 
diff --git a/doc/Installation/Installation-(RHEL-CentOS).md b/doc/Installation/Installation-(RHEL-CentOS).md
index 5e9966f8cc..2f1db49af6 100644
--- a/doc/Installation/Installation-(RHEL-CentOS).md
+++ b/doc/Installation/Installation-(RHEL-CentOS).md
@@ -187,9 +187,8 @@ the public domain by its author.  By default, the LibreNMS cronjob runs `poller-
 wrapper.py` with 16 threads.  The current LibreNMS recommendation is to use 4 th
 reads per core.  The default if no thread count is `16 threads`.
 
-If the thread count needs to be changed, you can do so by editing `librenms.cron
-` before copying (or by editing `/etc/cron.d/librenms` if you've already copied the cron file).  Just add a number after `poller-wrapper.py`, as in the below ex
-ample:
+If the thread count needs to be changed, you can do so by editing the cron file (`/etc/cron.d/librenms`).
+ Just add a number after `poller-wrapper.py`, as in the below example:
 
     /opt/librenms/poller-wrapper.py 12 >> /dev/null 2>&1
 
diff --git a/doc/Installation/Installation-Lighttpd-(Debian-Ubuntu).md b/doc/Installation/Installation-Lighttpd-(Debian-Ubuntu).md
index abb62fbe38..6fb61aacfd 100644
--- a/doc/Installation/Installation-Lighttpd-(Debian-Ubuntu).md
+++ b/doc/Installation/Installation-Lighttpd-(Debian-Ubuntu).md
@@ -130,13 +130,14 @@ Discover localhost and poll it for the first time:
 
 The polling method used by LibreNMS is `poller-wrapper.py`, which was placed in the public domain by its author.  By default, the LibreNMS cronjob runs `poller-wrapper.py` with 16 threads.  The current LibreNMS recommendation is to use 4 threads per core.  The default if no thread count is `16 threads`.
 
-If the thread count needs to be changed, you can do so by editing `librenms.cron` before copying (or by editing `/etc/cron.d/librenms` if you've already copied the cron file).  Just add a number after `poller-wrapper.py`, as in the below example:
+If the thread count needs to be changed, you can do so by editing the cron file (`/etc/cron.d/librenms`).
+ Just add a number after `poller-wrapper.py`, as in the below example:
 
     /opt/librenms/poller-wrapper.py 12 >> /dev/null 2>&1
 
 Create the cronjob
 
-    ln -s librenms.cron /etc/cron.d/librenms
+    cp librenms.cron /etc/cron.d/librenms
 
 ### Daily Updates ###
 
@@ -146,4 +147,4 @@ LibreNMS performs daily updates by default.  At 00:15 system time every day, a `
 
 so that it looks like this:
 
-    $config['update'] = 0;
\ No newline at end of file
+    $config['update'] = 0;