diff --git a/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml b/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml
index aa0184fd..afe26e13 100644
--- a/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml
+++ b/smartgears/smartgears/tasks/smartgears-app.yml
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@
   become: True
   become_user: '{{ d4science_user }}'
   shell: /usr/local/bin/change-logback-loglevel
-  notify: Restart smartgears 
   tags: [ 'smartgears', 'tomcat', 'smartgears_loglevel' ]
 
 - name: Remove some wrong symbolic links created by the install/upgrade script