diff --git a/readme-vars.yml b/readme-vars.yml
index 3f07624..7575432 100644
--- a/readme-vars.yml
+++ b/readme-vars.yml
@@ -28,9 +28,11 @@ param_env_vars:
 # application setup block
 app_setup_block_enabled: true
 app_setup_block: |
-  * Once running the URL will be `http://<host-ip>/smokeping/smokeping.cgi`. For example a full URL might look like `https://smokeping.yourdomain.com/smokeping/smokeping.cgi`.
-  * Basics are, edit the `Targets` file to ping the hosts you're interested in to match the format found there.
+  * Once running, the URL will be `http://<host-ip>/smokeping/smokeping.cgi`. For example, a full URL might look like `https://smokeping.yourdomain.com/smokeping/smokeping.cgi`.
+  * Basic setup: edit the `Targets` file to ping the hosts you're interested in to match the format found there.
   * Wait 10 minutes.
+  * To reload the configuration without restarting the container, run `docker exec smokeping pkill -f -HUP '/usr/bin/perl /usr/s?bin/smokeping(_cgi)?'`, where `smokeping` is the container ID.
+  * To restart the container, run `docker restart smokeping`, where `smokeping` is the container ID.
 
 # changelog
 changelogs: