diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 7b749b7a1bd..1ebf3f74c40 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -362,6 +362,9 @@ Release 2.1.1-beta - UNRELEASED
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
 
+    HADOOP-9910. proxy server start and stop documentation wrong
+    (André Kelpevia harsh)
+
     HADOOP-9446. Support Kerberos SPNEGO for IBM JDK. (Yu Gao via llu)
  
     HADOOP-9787. ShutdownHelper util to shutdown threads and threadpools.
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/apt/ClusterSetup.apt.vm b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/apt/ClusterSetup.apt.vm
index 7ac6755b5a4..121754413d0 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/apt/ClusterSetup.apt.vm
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/site/apt/ClusterSetup.apt.vm
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ $ $HADOOP_YARN_HOME/sbin/yarn-daemon.sh --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR start nodemana
   are used with load balancing it should be run on each of them:
 
 ----
-$ $HADOOP_YARN_HOME/bin/yarn start proxyserver --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR
+$ $HADOOP_YARN_HOME/sbin/yarn-daemon.sh start proxyserver --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR
 ----
 
   Start the MapReduce JobHistory Server with the following command, run on the
@@ -560,7 +560,7 @@ $ $HADOOP_YARN_HOME/sbin/yarn-daemon.sh --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR stop nodemanag
   balancing it should be run on each of them:
 
 ----
-$ $HADOOP_YARN_HOME/bin/yarn stop proxyserver --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR
+$ $HADOOP_YARN_HOME/sbin/yarn-daemon.sh stop proxyserver --config $HADOOP_CONF_DIR
 ----