diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt
index 13485014634f89d48310409d82c9cbb4bdf9de9b..9296fc2494e199e041bcda80772e9d19a1ccf701 100644
--- a/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/INSTALL.txt
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ INSTALLATION
    following example crontab line will activate the cron tasks automatically on
    the hour:
 
-   0   *   *   *   *   wget -O - -q http://www.example.com/cron.php
+   0   *   *   *   *   wget -O - -q -t 1 http://www.example.com/cron.php
 
    More information about the cron scripts are available in the admin help pages
    and in the Drupal handbook at drupal.org. Example scripts can be found in the